28 NSAM / NFA 40 ÅR 1983–2023 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. We promote continuity of doctor-patient relationships as a central organising principle. We provide timely diagnosis and avoid unnecessary tests and overtreatment. Disease prevention and health promotion are integrated into our daily activities. We recognise that social strain, deprivation, and traumatic experiences increase people’s susceptibility to disease, and we speak out on relevant issues. We prioritise those whose needs for healthcare are greatest. We practice person-centred medicine, emphasising dialogue, context, and the best evidence available. We remain committed to education, research, and quality development. We collaborate across professions and disciplines while also taking care not to blur the lines of responsibility. We care for our patients throughout their lives, tending to them through disease and suffering while encouraging progress toward health. We help patients understand their own health – to confront and manage their limitations, improve and maintain their well-being. Overexamination, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment can harm patients, consume resources and indirectly lead to harmful underdiagnosis and undertreatment elsewhere. When equally effective interventions are available, we choose those that cost less. The doctor-patient relationship is based on personal involvement and confidentiality. Continuity of care helps build mutual trust and enable high-quality person-centred care. We aim to minimise inequalities in how health services are provided. We organise our practices to devote the most time and effort to those whose needs for treatment and support are greatest. We engage professionally with our patients’ current life situations, biographical stories, beliefs, worries, and hopes. This helps us to recognise the links between social factors and sickness, and to deepen our understanding of how life and life events leave their imprint on the human body. We promote patients’ capacity to make use of their individual and communal resources. To safeguard our long-term resilience as caregivers, we attend to our own well-being. We engage actively in the training of our future colleagues We implement and promote research that is suited to the knowledge needs of General Practice/ Family Medicine. We take a constructively critical view of new knowledge and approaches within our areas of specialisation. Respect for human dignity is a prerequisite for healing and recovery. We acknowledge that many circumstances contribute to health inequalities: childhood experiences, housing, education, social support, family income/ unemployment, community structures, access to health services, etc. We recognise our duty to speak out publicly on specific factors that cause or worsen disease, increase inequality in health outcomes, or make resources less accessible to certain people. We engage actively in developing and adapting effective ways to cooperate. Read more about The Nordic Federation of General Practice on www.nfgp.org CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES OF NORDIC GENERAL PRACTICE/FAMILY MEDICINE Den nordiske federasjonen for allmennmedisin vedtok sine Core values i 2020.
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