Advocacy for Primary Care

IPCRG advocates for strong primary care to achieve respiratory health.  Our vision is a global population breathing and feeling well through universal access to right care.   This means that we support  the goal of the United Nations' Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve Universal Health Coverage, leaving no-one behind and no-one in poverty due to health bills.   Without a widely spread, multi-disciplinary respected and trusted primary care workforce we will not achieve universal health coverage.  Without investment in their competence to find, diagnose, treat and support people with respiratory problems we will not achieve universal health coverage. Without investment in health information systems in primary care and its right to prescribe and dispense essential medicines such as tobacco dependence pharmacotherapy and inhaled medicines, we will also not achieve universal health coverage. TWe regularly showcase the value of primary care in our publications and in programmes such as Asthma Right Care and COPD Right Care.