Our Members

IPCRG currently has 39 members – national primary care organisations around the world.

In their own country, IPCRG members...

• Create a forum (online and/or physical meetings) for primary care colleagues to learn, share their experience, and improve their care of people with chronic respiratory disease.
• Raise the standard of respiratory care throughout the country through influencing guidelines, teaching and mentoring.
• Promote to policy-makers the role of primary care in the detection and management of people with chronic respiratory disease through the collection of routine data, analysis and reasarch.

With IPCRG, members’ responsibilities are to...

• Nominate a representative to attend the Annual General Meeting that elects the IPCRG President and Treasurer and makes critical decisions about the future direction of the IPCRG
• Contribute ideas, data, comments and challenge to the IPCRG’s research, education and advocacy programmes as part of the IPCRG Senate.
• Promote IPCRG conferences and resources where these are relevant to their own country members
• Highlight to IPCRG committees where there are unaddressed research or educational needs that the Member would like IPCRG to address

With IPCRG, members have the right to...

• Be eligible for roles on the decision-making bodies of the IPCRG including the Research Leadership Team, Education sub-committee, Scientific Programme Committees of conferences and the Board of Directors that is responsible for policy, strategy and risk management.
• Be eligible for benefits such as bursaries and participate in IPCRG-funded activities
• From January 2025, describe the peer-reviewed npjPrimary Care Respiratory Medicine journal (IF 3.1) as their journal
• Participate in IPCRG research 
• Participate in social movements such as Asthma Right Care and COPD Right Care
• Have access to any private web forum open to members.