Conference prizes for our members
SAPC offers prizes each year to presenters at the annual scientific meeting. The prize winners are announced in the closing session of the conference.
SAPC Senior Investigator Research Prizes
Winners of the SAPC Senior Investigator Research Prizes will be eligible for a travel bursary, with the opportunity to present their work at a Distinguished Paper slot at the annual NAPCRG or AAAPC conferences. These are important opportunities to showcase APC and SAPC.
You can indicate if you would like to be considered when you submit your abstract.
SAPC Junior Research Prize
The winner of the SAPC Junior Investigator Research Prize will be eligible for a travel bursary.
To be considered, tick the box for "I am an early career academic" on the abstract submission form.
Education Prize
The top 5 scoring abstracts with an education theme will be judged at the ASM.
Best Poster Prize
All posters presented are eligible.
Former prize winners
2023
The winners were announced at the closing session of the SAPC ASM on Thursday 20th July 2023 - DoubleTree by Hilton Metropole Brighton
2022
The winners were announced at the closing session of the SAPC ASM on Wednesday 6th July 2022 - virtual conference
2021
The winners were announced at the closing session of the SAPC ASM on 1st July 2021 - virtual conference
2020
The conference was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic so no prizes were awarded
2019
The winners were announced at the closing session of the SAPC ASM on Friday 5th July 2019 at the University of Exeter
2018
The winners were announced in the closing session of the SAPC ASM on Thursday 12th July 2018 at the Barbican Centre, London
2017
The winners were announced in the closing session of the SAPC ASM on Friday 14th July 2017 at the University of Warwick
NAPCRG/SAPC prizes
Junior prize: John Barber, UCL
Presentation: Facilitators and barriers to teaching undergraduate medical students in primary care: the GPs’ perspective
Senior prize: Louise Robinson, Newcastle
Presentation: The Newcastle 85+ study: healthcare use by the very old increase as they age – true or false?
Early career prize
Matthew Booker, Bristol
Presentation: Why do primary care problems result in contact with the ambulance service? Findings from an ethnographic study
The education prize and poster prize competitions did not run in 2017.
2016
The winners were announced in the closing session of the SAPC ASM on Friday 8th July 2016 in Dublin
NAPCRG/SAPC prizes
Junior prize: Anders Prior, Aarhus University, Denmark
Presentation: Our perceived stress and multimorbidity associated with an increased risk of hospitalisations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions
Senior prize: Frances Mair, University of Glasgow
Presentation: What is the current state of digital health readiness in the UK: Findings from the delivering assistive living lifestyles at scale (Dallas) programme
Education prize
Sophie Park, University College London
Presentation: 4B.1/4 Patient participation in undergraduate medical education: development of an informative patient resource.
Early career prize
Veline L’Esperance, King’s College London
Presentation: Across-sectional study exploring the relationship between GP practice funding and practice achievement
Poster prizes
Presented by Rachel Spencer, University of Nottingham
Poster: P2.35 Retrospective review of prescriptions issued by GPs in Training
Presented by Emer Brangan and colleagues, University of Bristol
Poster: P2.42 How features of primary care influence self-referral to the Emergency Department. A storyboard.
2015
The winners were announced at the closing session on Friday 10th July 2015 in Oxford
NAPCRG/SAPC prizes
Junior prize: Edward Tyrrell, University of Nottingham
Presentation: Changes in adolescent poisonings in the UK over the past 20 years: a population based cohort study
Senior prize: Nicola Wiles, University of Bristol
For her presentation of a follow up on the Cobalt Trial
Education prize:
Kay Leedham-Green, King’s College London
Presentation: What are the learning needs of medical students when addressing obesity in a primary care consultation and how might they be addressed?
Early career prize
Puja Verma, Norwich Medical School
Presentation: Strategies to recruit and retain general practitioners: a systematic review
Poster prizes
Rebecca Porter, Lincoln
Presentation: Mr Grumpy becomes Mr Happy, Effective sleep treatment using Community Pharmacists
Maike Uijen, RCSI
Presentation: Impact analysis of clinical prediction rules relevant to primary care
2014
The winners were announced at the closing session on Friday 11th July 2014 in Edinburgh
NAPCRG/SAPC travel award
Ruth Blackburn, University College London
Presentation: Patterns of statin prescribing for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people with severe mental illness
Education prize
Russell Hearn, King's College London
Presentation: The use of a Simulated General Practice placement for undergraduate teaching. Student perceptions of the benefits and drawbacks.
Early career prize
Fergus Hamilton, Bristol
Presentation: The risk of cancer in primary care patients with hypercalcaemia: a retrospective cohort study using electronic records.
2013
NAPCRG/SAPC travel prize
Eliot Rees, Keele
Presentation: Undergraduate teaching in UK general practice: a complete national geographical picture
Education prize
Nicholas Fenlon, Irish College of GPs, Dublin
Presentation: Addressing suicide in primary care – an overview of the suicide prevention in primary care project
Early career prize
Matthew Booker, Bristol
Presentation: Exploring emergency ambulance use for primary care sensitive problems: results and reflections from a qualitative study
Poster prizes
Harry Longman, Patient Access
Presentation: How GP-patient continuity rises while average waiting days to see a GP falls to same day. A whole system model and intervention are described.
Mark Porcheret, Keele
Presentation: Consulting for osteoarthritis: development and testing of criteria to rate video recorded consultations for osteoarthritis in primary care