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The RCGP John Fry Award is presented to a GP whose work promotes the discipline of General Practice through research. The 2017 winner has been announced as Dr Matthew Ridd from the University of Bristol. Matt is a member of SAPC, and chairs the SAPC Dermatology SIG.
The 5th annual SAPC Dangerous Ideas soapbox saw 6 speakers propose a range of ideas to improve primary care.These included the reorganisation of community pharmacy together with the reinstatement of generalist leadership. Offered alongside partly-tongue-in-cheek critiques of current opiod prescribing, care for the homeless, shared decision making and 'moaning' GPs. The six speakers pitched their ideas to a lively SAPC audience who voted for the introduction of a new Amazon-esque style approach to medicines management! (Almost...) Next year''s Dangerous Ideas soapbox will be held at the ASM in Warwick.
The premier primary care research meetingin the United Kingdom and Ireland, the Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC) meeting, was hosted by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in ...
SAPC announces new affiliation with the Journal of Comorbidity bringing new benefits to our members
We are delighted to announce that three SAPC members have been elected as new Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Professor Kamlesh Khunti is Professor of Primary Care Diabetes ...
SAPC is delighted to announce that the 2016 winner of the SAPC-RCGP Yvonne Carter Award for outstanding new researcher is Dr Kamal Mahtani.
SAPC announces the names of our three new Exec members who will join us from July 2016-2019
Warwick Medical School are proud to be hosting the 2016 Annual Education, Research and Innovation Symposium at Warwick University, in partnership with the RCGP Midlands Faculty. This is a must-attend ...
SAPC's response to the CMAJ provocation that it is difficult to see a future for academic general practice. SAPC outlines why we need Academic Primary Care, Now more than ever
Teaching lies at the heart of SAPC’s vision to advance primary care through education and research. Indeed SAPC started life as the Association of University Teachers of General Practice. In ...
Here, primary care academics reflect on moments from the 2011 SAPC Conference which made them “stop and think” – in ways in which the conference showcased SAPC goal to advance ...
At the 2015 Annual Conference, we launched a new series of SAPC preconference career workshops - offering practical support for the challenges of our daily work. We ran two workshops ...
SAPC champions expertise in Academic Primary Care driving improvements in primary care provision. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework review of University based academic work celebrated several examples of APC making ...
SAPC champions expertise in education and research driving constant improvement in primary care provision. The impact of our work was celebrated in the latest University Research Excellence review. The IRIS ...
Resistant superbugs and the potential of the microbiome Our 2014 soapbox winners proposed that we address the global threat of antibiotic resistance with the Krapsule!
An annual award of £1000 is offered to support the international development of promising researchers in primary care. It is intended to enable the award winner to have the opportunity ...
This new workshop at SAPC ASM 2015 led by Jeremy Horwood, SAPC Communications Officer from Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), University of Bristol and Nadya Anscombe, freelance journalist and ...
SAPC is delighted to announce that our new Chair from July 2016 will be Professor Kate O’Donnell. Kate is Professor of Primary Care Research & Development in Glasgow. She leads ...
Academic primary care improves primary care. To maximise impact from academic primary care, we need a strong workforce. This report forms part of SAPC’s ongoing work to examine barriers and ...
Education and teaching lie at the heart of excellence in primary care. In this Hot Topic piece, Dr Sophie Park and colleagues discuss the importance of educational research in tackling ...
Health literacy describes the ability to access, understand and use health information, including being able to navigate health services. In this latest SAPC Hot Topic article, Dr Jo Protheroe and ...
Academic primary care derives its strength from its multidisciplinary makeup, which provides the balance of methodological and topic expertise to support work which is relevant and timely. Diversity supports impact ...
This qualitative scoping study exploring career paths of current members of the academic primary care community. The study spoke with staff at various career stages, including people with research and ...
SAPC is part of an international collaboration to enhance capacity for academic primary care. This report describes work undertaken with the Australian Association for Academic Primary Care ( AAAPC) and ...
Second prize in the 2014 SAPC Dangerous Ideas soapbox went to Robert Fleetcroft and Amanda Howe, who gave us a role play to show us why they believe Significant Event ...
Third prize at the 2014 SAPC Dangerous Ideas Soapbox went to Mica Skilton, a 3rd year medical student at Birmingham University. She argued that much of Undergraduate GP skills training ...
The latest of the SAPC Hot Topic papers, published in our sister journal Primary Health Care Research & Development, looks at how we raise the profile of APC. The report ...
In this latest SAPC Hot Topic article, Sarah Mosedale and Paul Wallace provide an overview of NHS organisational changes focusing on the implications and opportunities for academic primary care. In ...
The 2013 winning entry in the SAPC Dangerous Ideas soapbox proposed that physiotherapists, not GPs, would be the best gatekeepers for primary care musculoskeletal services. Annette Bishop, Nadine Foster and ...
The inaugural winner of the SAPC annual Dangerous Ideas soapbox competition offered an example of blue sky thinking making a difference in primary care. Scott Murray argued that since death ...
This SAPC Hot Topic article responded to the recent report by Professor Graham Watt calling for greater recognition of the importance of blue sky research in primary care. Joanne Reeve ...
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