The annual SAPC conference showcases the latest research and education in academic primary care.
Submission deadline 23rd January 2026.
We invite you to submit work in the following formats:
Presentations: Oral and poster information and submission
Workshop: Information and submission
Creative Enquiry workshop: Information and submission
Dangerous Ideas: Information and submission
The presenting author must register to attend the conference.
Conference programme and themes
The Scientific Committee is particularly keen to receive abstracts which complement the conference theme: Leading the Future of Primary Care
We particularly welcome submissions that map closely to this theme. However, submissions are welcome on any topic relating to research and educational activities in primary care both in the UK and internationally.
We hope that you will come and join us in St Andrews.
Notifications
Notifications of the status of your submission following peer review and the programming meeting, will be emailed to submitters by early March 2026.
Types of presentation
The programme will include keynote presentations, parallel sessions of verbal presentations, posters and workshops.
Bursaries and prizes
We have a number of bursaries and prizes on offer.
Scientific Programme Committee
Professor Frank Sullivan (Conference Convenor 2026)
Dr Sarah E E Mills (Scientific Convenor 2026)
Frank Sullivan has been an academic GP since 1984 and the Professor of Primary Care Medicine in the University of St. Andrews since 2017. Until 2024 his clinical practice was in Anstruther. His research interests lie mainly in health informatics and community based trials, covering the spectrum from systematic reviews, record-linkage of electronic health records to decision support and the evaluation of complex interventions.
During the early phase of his career he worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer in the University of Glasgow and had a secondment to work in the Republic of Seychelles. In 1998 moved to Dundee as chair of R&D in General Practice and Primary Care. From 2014-17 he was the inaugural Gordon F. Cheesborough Research Chair and director of the University of Toronto’s Practice Based Research Network. He holds honorary chairs in the Universities of Dundee, Galway and Toronto. He was the chair of SAPC HoDs from 2010-12.
Sarah Mills is a Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the University of St Andrews, conducting multi-disciplinary, person-centred research into urgent/unscheduled care and care in the last year of life.
She is a Principal Investigator on three externally funded projects researching improving unscheduled care use for people in their last year of life.
Sarah holds key advisory and executive positions in academia, medico-politics and government including on the SAPC executive and as Chair of the BMA Women in Academic Medicine committee.
