2018 ESPCG Educational Meeting Liver Management Problems in Primary Care 21-22 September 2018 Hotel Sheraton, Zagreb Welcome BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION The ESPCG mission is increasing knowledge and best practice from a primary care perspective in gastrointestinal disorders around Europe. Management of liver disease is an increasing challenge for primary care doctors. Different disorders such as infectious hepatitis, alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver disease are a focus for the society to ensure adequate management in different European scenarios. Immigration among European countries is also a recent and relevant factor adding to the need for wider hepatic knowledge. Balkan counties like Croatia, represent a challenge for the ESPCG 2018 Spring Meeting. Firstly, for its initial involvement as a new member country represented in ESPCG and secondly for its potential need to have this liver programme for their GPs. PARTNERS Collaboration from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), the Croatian Association of Family Medicine and the Croatian Society of Gastroenterology is an important element for the success of the event especially as we will be promoting the shared care approach from the specialist side. Local Croatian GPs Association involvement also represents an important sharing experience from an ESPCG perspective. The symposia is funded and made possible through a grant from UEG.
2018 ESPCG Educational Meeting Liver Management Problems in Primary Care 21-22 September 2018 Hotel Sheraton, Zagreb Welcome BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION The ESPCG mission is increasing knowledge and best practice from a primary care perspective in gastrointestinal disorders around Europe. Management of liver disease is an increasing challenge for primary care doctors. Different disorders such as infectious hepatitis, alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver disease are a focus for the society to ensure adequate management in different European scenarios. Immigration among European countries is also a recent and relevant factor adding to the need for wider hepatic knowledge. Balkan counties like Croatia, represent a challenge for the ESPCG 2018 Spring Meeting. Firstly, for its initial involvement as a new member country represented in ESPCG and secondly for its potential need to have this liver programme for their GPs. PARTNERS Collaboration from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), the Croatian Association of Family Medicine and the Croatian Society of Gastroenterology is an important element for the success of the event especially as we will be promoting the shared care approach from the specialist side. Local Croatian GPs Association involvement also represents an important sharing experience from an ESPCG perspective. The symposia is funded and made possible through a grant from UEG.
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