Society for Academic Primary CareA periodic look into what the team at SAPC is upto.
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
Dr Olivia Jagger and Dr Emily Donovan, both GP ST3 and Academic Clinical Fellows, University of Southampton rose to the challenge of writing this paper on their experience of attending the SAPC ASM 2019 in Exeter (3-5 July 2019).
SAPC is grateful to Sage Journals and the Royal College of General Practitioners for allowing free access to this paper until 6th August 2020
Here is a message from Dr Sally Flint, University of Exeter, who gave a recital of some of her work at the SAPC ASM 2019 in Exeter, inviting contributions to the Climate Matters 2020 antholgoy.
We are delighted to announce that this year's winner is Dr Sarah Mitchell.
The judges were very impressed with her focus on palliative care and end of life care as well as strong leadership in this area.
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
BJGPLife is the British Journal of General Practice's multimedia communication platform and first choice for comment, opinion, ideas and experience. It is accessible directly from the BJGP website and is an integral and essential part of the BJGP package. It has already taken on a new life with video interviews and contemporary comment with particular focus on the Covid-19 crisis.
There have been a number of important contributions from SAPC members to the evidence-base which will support clinicians in their work.
St George's University London - Mohammed Razai has shared a acouple of links:
Last month saw the cancellation of our Annual Scientific Meeting in Leeds in July – a decision which had to be made early to prevent financial losses. A big thanks must go to Richard Neal and Suzanne Richards and their team who had spent many hours on organising what was promising to be an excellent ASM.
Following the cancellation due to the Covid-19 pandemic of the SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting that was to be held in Leeds in July 2020 we are planning to publsih the presentation abstracts that were submitted. We plan to have them available by early July.