Primary Care Forum

The European Forum for Primary Care association (EFPC) was officialy founded in September 2011 Strong Primary Care (PC) produces better health outcomes against lower costs. That is the briefest summary of available scientific evidence. By promoting strong PC the population’s health can be improved. It requires appropriate conditions at the health care system level and in actual practice to make PC

providers able and willing to take responsibility for the health of the population under their care. A key element is effective collaboration with well organised secondary care. Everywhere in Europe the process of strengthening PC is ongoing, with a large diversity in the way PC is organised. Therefore, Europe is in a sense a laboratory landscape of experiments for organising primary care. There is a strong need to collect and share information about what structures and strategies matter. This is a support to practitioners but will also provide the evidence to convince policy makers at different levels that PC needs to be strengthened.