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SAPC is delighted to announce the winners of our career prizes in 2020 Medical Student essay prize Essay subject: "A consultation in primary care that changed my practice" This is ...

Dr Olivia Jagger and Dr Emily Donovan, both GP ST3 and Academic Clinical Fellows, University of Southampton rose to the challenge of writing this paper on their experience of attending ...

Here is a message from Dr Sally Flint, University of Exeter, who gave a recital of some of her work at the SAPC ASM 2019 in Exeter, inviting contributions to ...

We are delighted to announce that this year's winner is Dr Sarah Mitchell. View Sarah's presentation The judges were very impressed with her focus on palliative care and end of ...

There have been a number of important contributions from SAPC members to the evidence-base which will support clinicians in their work. Added 4th June 2020: Study by Edge Hill and ...

BJGPLife is the British Journal of General Practice's multimedia communication platform and first choice for comment, opinion, ideas and experience. It is accessible directly from the BJGP website and is ...

In March we announced the cancellation of our Annual Scientific Meeting in Leeds in July – a decision which had to be made early to prevent financial losses. A big ...

Many thanks to Emily Cottrell, Hugh Alberti and Trevor Thompson who have now prepared a report on our 2018 national survey of all UK Heads of GP teaching. We are ...

Many congratulations to Professor Martin Marshall (Professor of Healthcare Improvement, University College London) who will be the next Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, taking over from Professor ...

Congratulations to all the prize winners at the 48th SAPC annual scientific meeting held at the University of Exeter from 3rd to 5th July 2019. Christian Mallen, Keele, was announced ...

Congratulations to Professor Amanda Howe, University of East Anglia, who will be the next President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, taking over from Professor Mayur Lakhani in November ...

We are delighted to announce that Professor Paul Little, from the University of Southampton, is this year's recipient of the RCGP's Discovery Award. This is one of the College's most ...

Congratulations to Professor Deborah Swinglehust of Queen Mary University of London, who is this year's recipient of the RCGP John Fry Award. This award recognises a Member or Fellow of ...

SAPC and RCGP are delighted to announce that Dr Emma Wallace is the winner of this year's Yvonne Carter Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher. Emma will be giving a ...

Many congratulations to the SAPC members awarded, or re-awarded, NIHR Senior Investigator Awards: Jonathan Mant (Cambridge); Kamlesh Khunti (Leicester); Alastair Hay (Bristol); and Richard McManus (Oxford). This is a fantastic ...

The Annual General Meeting will take place at 12.30 (until 13.30) on Thursday 4th July Papers will be available on-line shortly before the AGM and will be distributed in hard ...

Deadline for nominations 31st March 2019 How good is your Principal Investigator? It’s competition time! Here at SAPC, the search is on for the best, the most dedicated, and the ...

Many congratulations to our SAPC colleagues recognised in this year’s New Year's Honours List: Professor Dame Louise Robinson Professor Richard Hobbs CBE Professor Willie Hamilton CBE We are very proud ...

We are delighted that Professor Richard Hobbs, University of Oxford and Director of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, is the recipient of the 2018 Discovery Prize. This award ...

SAPC has two new SIGs! Cancer and No Health without Mental Health. If you would like to find out more about these SIGs please click on their titles to read ...

Many thanks to co-chairs Professors Steph Taylor and Anita Berlin and Scientific Programme Chair, Dr Deborah Swinglehurst and everyone on the planning and programme teams for hosting an excellent SAPC ...

The SAPC Annual General Meeting was held on Thursday 12th July in London. Thank you to everyone who attended. Venue, papers and details

Championing and cultivating the intellectual expertise at the heart of the profession of General Practice #GPwisdom #GPscholarship SAPC, working in partnership with the RCGP, is leading work to raise the ...

As a society that reflects many of our own interests, both in health topics and research methods, we would like to draw your attention to this year's Annual Scientific Meeting ...

We are delighted that three SAPC members – Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Oxford; Professor Paul Little, Southampton; and Professor Tim Peters, Bristol – have all been selected to serve on REF ...

Congratulations to Dr Andrew Carson-Stevens, Cardiff University, who is this year's winner of the Yvonne Carter award for outstanding new researcher awarded by RCGP and SAPC. Here is a link ...

31st May - RCGP-SAPC Annual elective prize - details (scroll down once on the RCGP page) 31st May - Discovery Prize - details (scroll down once on the RCGP page) ...

SAPC is pleased to share the news that the Journal of Comorbidity (JOC) is now indexed in PubMed Central (PMC), the US National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine ...

SAPC are delighted to announce that we have two new PHoCuS Leads – Professor Suzanne Richards and Dr Julia Hiscock. In January both are taking over from Professors Christine Bond ...

Staying True: Navigating the Opportunities and Challenges of Primary Health Care Reform The Australian Journal of Primary Health invites submissions of papers for publication in a special Issue in 2018 exploring the potential and the problems posed by PHC reform as an international movement to deliver better health outcomes. The edition marks the ten year anniversary of the World Health Organisation report, Primary Health Care - Now More Than Ever. Submission deadline is October 30 2017. The Special Issue will be published mid-2018 but papers will become available ‘Online Early’ immediately following acceptance and production. Articles may be up to 3000 words. Full details of the submission and peer review process are available on the Journal website. For further information, please contact Virginia Lewis.

Candace Imison from Nuffield Trust is a keynote speaker at this week's SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting. She will be speaking on future directions for primary care. Nuffield Trust are currently doing a survey of GP practice based staff on their thoughts for the future. You can join the survey by clicking here

Kate O'Donnell chaired her first SAPC AGM on Thursday 13th July 2017 at the University of Warwick. "We have had another busy year promoting and supporting academic primary care. As ...

The work of SAPC members has been recognised in multiple awards made by the Royal College of General Practitioners. Dr Jo Protheroe, SAPC Treasurer & SIG lead and Senior Academic GP at Keele, has been awarded the 2018 RCGP John Fry award for her leadership and work in the field of Health Literacy. Professor Chris Dowrick, Professor of Primary Medical Care at Liverpool and Chair of the Working Party for Mental Health at WONCA, will receive the RCGP George Abercrombie award for special meritorious literary work in General Practice. Professor Kate O'Donnell, SAPC Chair and Professor of Primary Care at Glasgow, has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of the College - RCGP's most important award, offered in recognition of outstanding contribution to the work and the goals of the discipline and the College.

Applications for the 2017 NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) are now open. The NIA is recruiting exceptional individuals with evidence-based ready-to-scale innovations to join its new cohort. Full details, including how ...

Senior members of SAPC have responded to plans announced by Health Education England to cut the educational support budget for GP training by 30% from next year. In a letter ...

This seminar focuses around the discipline of primary care research. It will provide intellectual stimulation, discussion, and a glimpse into how general practice can become stronger through primary care research ...

Congratulations to Dr Nathan Davies, University College London, who is this year's winner of the Yvonne Carter award for outstanding new researcher awarded by RCGP and SAPC. Here are a ...

Congratulations to Professors Christine Bond and Sandra Eldridge who lead the SAPC PHoCuS group: Christine Bond has been made a fellow of RCGP. Sandra Eldridge has been awarded an NIHR ...

The 2nd annual symposium on symptoms in Primary Care will be held on September 22-23 2017 in The Netherlands. Invitations for abstract submission is open with the deadline extended to June 1st. Full details are available on the symposium webpage.

This year's SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting programme includes a day aimed at meeting the CPD needs of practising clinicians. Find our more here and on the conference webpage

Details of the Utrecht summer school on training and quality management in family medicine

Thank you to all our regional meeting hosts for organising these great meetings so far this year Imperial College for hosting the SAPC SE regional meeting at Madingley Hall in ...

The peer review process is well underway and all submitting authors will be notified of the outcome before the end of April. The programme will include dangerous ideas and an ...

We are delighted to welcome Chris Dowrick as the Chair of SAPC's Awards Committee. Chris is well known to many of us as Professor of Primary Medical Care at the ...

The deadline for applications for the Yvonne Carter Award for outstanding new researcher is 31st January. Read more ... The deadline for applications/nominations for the John Fry Award is 17th ...

Congratulations to Helen Stokes-Lampard on becoming Chair of Council for the Royal College of General Practitioners. She is also a part-time GP partner at The Cloisters Medical Practice in Lichfield ...

Moving research into the real world; £400,000 research grants available to help close the gap between dementia research and practice. Alzheimer’s Society uses the Implementation grant scheme to move tested ...