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.
Prize 1 & 2 - Travel Prizes
Partner organisations supporting the Travel Prizes: the Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC), the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) and the Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC)
The winners will be selected from the highest scoring abstracts who are given oral presentations at the SAPC annual conference.
1. A junior prize - an early career prize of £500 for the winner to attend the NAPCRG conference and receive complimentary registration
2. Two senior prize - later career prizes of a distinguished presentation slot at either the NAPCRG or AAAPC conferences and complimentary registration
You can indicate if you would like to be considered when you submit your abstract. If you miss this step please email office@sapc.ac.uk by the end of April to be considered.
Eligibility
Early career academics: for students, doctoral fellows or candidates within 5 years pro-rata of completing your PhD
Senior career academics: 5 years or more full-time equivalent post-doctoral research experience.
Prize 3 - Best Presentation by an Early Career Academic
One Hundred Pounds (£100) is awarded for the best presentation by an early career researcher. To qualify, the main author and presenter should have no more than five years (whole time equivalent) research experience. Shortlisting for the prize will be based on the quality of submitted abstracts, and shortlisted presentations will be judged by a panel of senior academics.
When submitting your abstract via the on-line form tick the box for "I am an early career academic" in the About you and your abstract section of the form.
Prize 4 - Best Presentation in Education
One Hundred Pounds (£100) is awarded for the best presentation focusing on education. Shortlisting for the prize will be based on the quality of submitted abstracts, and shortlisted presentations will be judged by a panel of senior academics.
Presenters of the top scoring education abstracts in an oral session will be judged for the prize.
Prizes 5 & 6 - Poster Prizes
An award of seventy-five pound (£75) in book tokens is given to the two best posters at the conference.
Note - this prize is not awarded when posters are not included in the programme at the ASM
Former prize winners
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