International Primary Care Respiratory Group
working locally, collaborating globally
The only
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International primary care respiratory
organisation
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International primary care organisation
with a respiratory research mission
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Primary care respiratory journal with an
IMPACT factor (2.19 for 2012)
Organisation of organisations
reaching 118,000+ global GPs
22 country member organisations
28 associate country members
6 associate corporate members
Alliances:
EAACI
European COPD Coalition
GAAPP
WONCA
EPOS
EAACI primary care group
ERS primary care group
+ associate member organisations:
Associate Corporate Members:
European Federation of Allergy & Airways
Boehringer Ingelheim
Diseases Patients’ Associations
Mundipharma
Novartis
Education for Health
Pfizer
European Forum for Primary Care
Teva
International COPD Coalition
Vitalograph
World Allergy Organization
The Board 2013
President and
WHO-GARD
Planning Executive
(primary care)
Niels Chavannes,
Netherlands
Low and middle
income countries, Tan
Tze Lee, Singapore
joins June 2013
President
Elect, Ron
Tomlins,
Australia
Treasurer, CEO
National Asthma
Council Australia,
Kristine Whorlow,
Australia
Immediate Past
President, WONCA
Europe Doctor of the
Year 2012 Miguel
Roman, Spain
Co-optee and
Co-optee and
PCRJ Education
Chair 2014
Rep, Jaime
Organising
Correia de
Committee
Ioanna Tsiligianni, Sousa, Portugal
Crete
Conference
Advisor and Past
President Anders
Ostrem, Norway
Co-optee, Karin
Lisspers,
Sweden, joins
June 2013
WHO-GARD
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Primary care reps on Planning Executive
Demonstration projects in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Uganda
All national action plans should involve primary care
Raising respiratory
standards
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WONCA Europe 2010, 2011, 2012 and
2013
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Workshop programmes
Miguel Roman: Doctor of the Year
Primary care chapter of ERS White Book
2013
Delivering value for respiratory
research by working locally,
collaborating globally
© IPCRG2013
2007
Research is the reason the
IPCRG exists
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IPCRG’s charitable mission is “to improve public
health by carrying out, funding and organising
research into the care, treatment and prevention of
respiratory illnesses, diseases and problems in a
community setting, and to make available the results
of such research for the benefit of the public and
healthcare professionals.”
There is a need for research:
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Undertaken within primary care
Recruiting populations representative of primary care
patients
Evaluating interventions realistically delivered within
primary care
Drawing conclusions meaningful to professionals
working within primary care
What’s the problem we need to sort?
Global Action Plan against NCDs
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25% reduction in mortality from NCDs by 2025
30% reduction in tobacco use
Learning shared between low, middle and high
income countries
Increasing capability + capacity
E-Faculty Equip one primary care research-
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E-Faculty
o Vietnam
aspiring country with the skills to conduct high
quality original research .....[in the field of] chronic
respiratory disease and appropriate respiratory
management
o Romania
o Chile
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FRESH AIR
o Vietnam
o Uganda
o ? Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan
Fresh Air project
•Identifying COPD
•Smoking
•Biomass fuels
Tanzania
Educational products
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974 participants plus
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45 countries
180 webcast audience: Chile (2 venues),
Argentina, India and Spain
22 aided by IPCRG bursary
15 from Bangladesh
63 from Russia
112 AHPs
20 doctors in training
18 hours CME accreditation
Research meetings + conferences
150 primary care
delegates: innovators
and early adopters
Meet Thursday night:
FRESH AIR Uganda
Friday: themed
abstracts
Saturday: research
design day (3 projects
selected from 10 bids)
Research meetings + conferences
A Breath of Fresh
Air:
Multiple Morbidities
and Integration
What changes clinical
behaviour: E-Quality
Bids for small scale
educational
interventions to improve
respiratory diagnosis
treatment and care
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Adelaide, Australia – transposition of Spirometry 360
– distance learning programme with over-reading and
mentoring service initiated by University of
Washington
What changes clinical
behaviour: E-Quality
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Dr Beraki Ghezai + colleagues
Norway/ Eritrea
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Prior to 2003 establishment School of Medicine, physician index
5 per 100,000 First graduating class in 2009 had 44 physicians
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Develop capacity for diagnosing chronic respiratory disease
across Eritrea:
o Educational programme for 6x regional hospital leads
o Pilot an educational programme for healthcare workers in
one region
• Introduce use of diagnostic tools
Associate member.
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Person or group of people.
o Not formal group (Membership rules and list,
bank account)
o Represent primary care in the country?
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Will allow you to particpate in IPCRG, but
not full voting rights.
Lunger i praksis.
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Norwegian network of GPs with special
interest in pulmonary medicine.
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Formed in 2000 – founding member of
IPCRG.
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450 members (10% of all GPs)
Aims of Lunger i praksis.
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Improve care for people with pulmonary disease in primary care.
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Inspire to research on pulmonary diseases outside the hospital
setting.
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Create a meeting-place for GPs with an interest in pulmonary
medicine.
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Organise courses and conferences for primary care.
Increase the knowledge of GPs and health personnel working in
primary care.
Increase primary care influence in national guidelines
Our activities:
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Courses:
o CME courses for GPs and health care personnel since 2000.
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Research:
o Several researchers affiliated to the University of Oslo.
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Projects:
o Guidelines for COPD; asthma and smoking cessation
o International activates; e-Quality , IPCRG conferences.
Eritrea; e-quality....and more?
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Lunger i praksis is committed to work over time to
develop projects in Eritrea in collaboration with the
Orotta school of Medicine and Dentistry.
o Educational projects
o Research projects – “Fresh Air Eritrea”
o Support development of research capacity
o ...and more!
To conclude, IPCRG is
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Independent
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Aligned to primary care (WONCA Europe and global)
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Supported by patients (ELF, EFA, GAAPP, COPD
Coalition)
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Communities of practice: research, education, care
delivery
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Because primary care, can tackle multiple morbidities
Work in low, middle and high income countries
(aligned to NCD Alliance, Union)
Aligned to respiratory care (ERS, GARD, EAACI,
ARIA, WAO)