Society for Academic Primary CareA periodic look into what the team at SAPC is upto.
Looking back on what has been a challenging year, I am sure we are all ready for a break, and I do hope everyone is able to get some down-time, hopefully with people who are special to you (within COVID-19 restrictions).
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic so many of our colleagues found themselves working harder than ever and facing challenges and changes in working practices which allowed little brain space for anything else.
2020 has been a year of changes as to how we work on lots of levels and working with public contributors in developing, managing and disseminating research has led to new opportunities and some challenges. As the lead for the Patient and public involvement and participatory research approaches in academic primary care SAPC special interest group it has made me think about how the new ways we are working impact on the public involvement we are able to do.
WISE GP is a joint initiative between SAPC and the Royal College of GPs to recognise, strengthen and extend the professional scholarship that lies at the core of strong multidisciplinary general practice delivery.
The NIHR School for Primary Care Research have funded two internships to support development of the programme. One is exclusively reserved for an SAPC Primary Healthcare Scientist.
In this blog, Professor Carolyn Chew Graham and Dr Tom Kingstone reflect on how practice-based research can help clinicians tackle emerging new challenges.
9th October 2020
Andrew Farmer is a former member of the SAPC Executive Committee. He has recently taken on the role of Programme Director for the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme, the largest funder of NHS facing clinical trials.
We are delighted to announce a new project launched in July 2020 in partnership between the Society for Academic Primary Care Heads of GP Teaching Group (HoTs), the Medical Schools Council, and multi-award winning TV production company Knickerbockerglory, producers of the Channel 5 television series GPs: Behind Closed Doors.
July 20, 2020
Ben Paxton
I’m sure we’ll agree that it is a strange time for all of us.
Last week was ‘Mental Health Awareness week’ and members of the MH Special Interest group would have been attending the Primary Care Mental Health conference at the University of York on 21st May. You can find the submitted abstracts on the SAPC website
I have sat on the SAPC executive for 4 years now, and I have the honour of being the joint lead Primary
Health Care Scientists (PHoCuS) with Dr Julia Hiscock, University of Bangor. Primary Care Scientist is a
catchall term for the >50% of the Academic Primary Care (APC) workforce who are not general
practitioners. This group includes academics involved in both education and research. We are diverse,
with different professional backgrounds e.g. allied health professionals and nursing, social sciences