Tampere, July 5th 2001
Room 200. (17.00-19.00)


Those present:

Carlos Brotons (Spain), Cristos Lionis (Greece), Leo Pas (Belgium), Ingrid Pichler (Austria), Ton Drenthen (The Netherlands), Liivia Pullerits (Estonia), Rosa Piñeiro (Spain),Maxime Mancini (Switzerland), Jasna Vucak (Croatia), Arthur Hibble (UK), Jon Bjarni (Iceland), Mateja Bulc (Slovenia), Mehmet Ungan (Turkey), Antonia Sánchez (Spain), Donatella Sghedoni (Italy), Juan Mendive (Spain).

Apologies received from delegates that could not attend to this meeting.

1. The Meeting begins with a welcome to the new secretary, Antonia, replacing Lynn during her maternity leave... .
   
   
   
2. Carlos Brotons comments on new possible incorporations of delegates from Italy, Iceland and also future changes in Russia and Portugal.
   
   
   
3. Carlos comments on the need to open a membership fee for individuals and institutions, and shows registration form for membership (in an europrev brochure specifically edited for this Conference). It is discussed the way we can disseminate this information. It is agreed that we have to update first the list of delegates and then we can send copies to the different delegates for its dissemination. This can be done through the national journals or webpages or directly sending to members of each college. Ton Drenthen raises the issue of what will be the tradeoffs of being a member. It is commented that members will be entitled to receive reports and publications of EUROPREV (as the ones concerning alcohol and tobacco released during the conference) but it is important that in the future EUROPREV could edit its newsletters with contributions of all the delegates, and also, could organise its own scientific conferences on different topics of prevention and health promotion, and future members will be entitled to attend to them without any fee.
   
   
   
4. European survey: the preliminary results from 9 countries were presented at the WONCA Conference. We are still expecting the results from two other countries and we will close the survey. It is decided to receive feedback from those delegates that participate in the survey concerning their results (any error or problem detected) in order to clean the database and also concerning the analysis of the data. Cross analysis is needed by characteristics of GPs (sex, rural/urban, ...). It is suggested to create a writing committee that monitors and guides the analysis of the results, and make recommendations for the publication of the survey. It is said that it would be interesting to publish the country survey in national journals, and the combined results (with comparison by country) in an international journal. It is also said that it would be interesting to present these results at the EGPRW meeting to have their feedback, and also the possibility to apply for funds for further analysis and publication of the data. It is decided that Carlos Brotons would prepare the application form, circulated to all the delegates and submitted before the 1 of August, 2001. The proposal will have to be presented in the next EGPRW meeting in Gdansk, Poland, in October, 2001.
   
   
   
5. EUROPREV has been invited to participate at the Third International Workshop of Nutrition guidance of family doctors: towards best practice, next December 10-12, 2001, in Heelsum, The Netherlands. They have invited us to participate as a speaker in Session C 'Nutrition Communication to Health Professionals: New Ideas, New Methods, Shaping the Future? on the subject 'Networking of family doctors'. It is agreed the EUROPREV contribution could be focused on reviewing the guides already published in each europrev country, and summarised this information in terms of common things, differences, clinical application,... It is suggested to collect from each europrev delegate this information from the different national colleges. It would be appreciated if an English translated summary is attached to each document. This request will be done from the secretariat shortly.
   
   
   
6. Leo Pas comments the WONCA ad hoc task Force on tobacco cessation. This is an initiative chair by Richard Botelho (USA) and Michael Boland (President of World WONCA) already presented and discussed at the last WONCA Conference in Durban as a Global Call for Action on Tobacco Cessation, with the objectives of: developing innovative programs for addressing tobacco cessation at both organisational and clinical levels, developing and conducting 'Train the trainers' program at WONCA meetings, developing smoking cessation programs for medical students, trainees/residents and doctors who are tobacco users, promoting the use of continuous improvement methods in developing educational, organizational and clinical approaches to tobacco cessation, promoting research activities, promoting appropriate policy to address tobacco cessation and control, fostering international collaboration and seeking funding from external sources. It is decided that in WONCA Europe these strategies will be leaded by EUROPREV, with the collaboration of other networks, and the persons that will be in charge to chair these activities in Europe will be Leo Pas, Max Mancini, Carlos Brotons and Tim Lancaster. A small budget has been approved at the WONCA World council meeting to run a survey of member organisations to benchmark what they are doing to address tobacco cessation and control. A draft of this inquiry will be circulated through the network organisations, and it is expected to collect the data before the end of the year 2001, and present the results at the next WONCA Conference in London.
   
   
   
7. Carlos Brotons announces the next meeting of EUROPREV international delegates, to be held on November 23-24th, 2001, in Barcelona.
   
   
   
8. The meeting finishes at approximately 7:00pm.