Contact:
David Gorria
General Secretary
c/o General Secretary
European Region of WCPT
Rue de Pascale, 16
B-1040 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: (32) 2
231 5063
Fax: (32) 2
231 5064
Email:
info@physio-europe.org
Web: www.physio-europe.org
Chair: Antonio Lopes
Email: amflopes@essa.pt or nop06282@mail.telepac.pt
The next General Meeting of the European Region of WCPT will take place in Berlin, Germany in 2010.
All enquiries relating to the meeting should be addressed to David Gorria at info@physio-europe.org
The following is taken
from the WCPT Quadrennial Report for the period 2003-2007
The Region received recognition as the voice of the
profession at European level, by becoming a member of
the European Union (EU) Commission Health Policy Forum.
It has also collaborated with the European Commission on
the recognition of professional qualifications, the service
directive, patient mobility, healthcare developments and
internal market information.
Under the EU Commission Community Action Programme,
the Region submitted two projects in 2006, on guideline
exercise programmes to help children avoid back pain and to line support smokers in giving up. Both were approved.
The Region’s First European Congress on Education was held in
November 2004, in Estoril , Portugal. A total of 300 participants
from 35 countries were present. Following the EU Directive on
recognition of professional qualifications, the Region held a
workshop on common platforms for Member Organisations in
May 2006 in Croatia. The meeting was also attended by EU
National Authorities and was part of the project of developing
a common platform for physiotherapists to facilitate migration
in the EU. The European Region Conference on clinical
guidelines was held on in November 2006.
The Region also developed a range of documents, including
core standards of practice, an auditing tool, and physiotherapy
service standards.
