The first RCGP Global Health Conference: the global impact of family medicine.

The UK Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) actively encourages the establishment of primary care throughout the world. It supports international development partners to learn from each other and work together to achieve universal health coverage and access to family medicine for all. Demonstrating its leadership and capacity, the first RCGP Global Health Conference (GHC): ‘Family Medicine: global impact’ was held at 30 Euston Square on 6–8 March 2015. Over 300 delegates from 20 countries, including GPs/family medicine doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, educationalists, managers, academics, and medical leaders, gathered to consider global primary care development and the complexity of access to affordable, continuous health care for all.The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations, and individual governments and administrations have long advocated the global use of primary care to raise the levels of health in deprived populations by acting on the social, economic, and political causes of ill health. …