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History

The Nordic colleges of general practitioners decided at their meeting in Copenhagen 23 April 2004 that a proposal for a new organisation of SJPHC ApS, which should include collaboration between the Nordic congresses and Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care within the framework of SJPHC ApS, should be drafted. This was finally accepted at the general meeting on 16 April 2005.

Consequently, the amendments of SJPHC ApS were changed and also the name of the ApS to Nordic Federation of General Practice ApS (abbreviation: NFGP ApS).

Proposal for future organization of NFGP ApS

Objective

The Company's objective is to work to enhance general practitioners' role in primary health care in the five Nordic countries, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark.

The Company must procure/disseminate the holding of Nordic congresses in general practice.

The Company may in order to further the objective initiate other activities e.g. publishing of other journals, books and periodicals/publications, undertaking training courses, holdning other congresses etc.

Anna Stavdal, the first President of the Nordic Federation of General Practice, wrote in an editorial in SJPHC, 2005; 23:129:'It is our hope that the federation will prove to be profitable and useful for the academic as well as for the clinical field in Nordic general practice.'

Read Anna Stavdals editorial