SAPC ASM 2024 - Bristol
52nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Bristol 3-5 July 2024
Photos from the conference:
Thursday 4th July - Part 1
Thursday 4th July - Part 2
Thursday 4th July - Part 3
DOI reference for abstracts and talks:
10.37361/asm.2024.1.1
DOI LINK: https://sapc.ac.uk/doi/10.37361/asm.2024.1.1
Abstract Book Downloadable abstract booklet
Abstract - Copyright belongs to the authors of the individual abstracts under the creative commons license
Sustainable Primary Care: healthy systems, healthy people
Presentation guidelines
Presentation times can be found in the detailed programme here
Useful Information
Registration for the conference is now closed
The Helen Lester Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof Caroline Mitchell.
We are excited to be hosting the SAPC ASM 2024 at the Centre for Academic Primary Care in the vibrant city of Bristol.
The conference runs from the 3rd - 5th of July and will be held in the University of Bristol Wills Memorial Building in the heart of the city.
Our conference theme this year is ‘Sustainable Primary Care: healthy systems, healthy people’. We are interpreting sustainability broadly, including maintaining a happy and healthy workforce across health care and academic sectors, in the context of the global environmental crisis that we face. In line with our conference theme, we are inviting a range of inspiring speakers to inform and sustain us at the conference and beyond.
Alongside our plenary speakers, we want to hear from the whole range of health and care professionals, academics, educators, and public contributors who shape primary care. This involves you - we look forward to welcoming submissions of work in the form of posters, oral presentations, workshops, creative enquiry, and dangerous ideas reflecting the broad range of academic primary care research. We look forward to seeing your great research and ideas.
Our social events will include a chance to visit the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) for welcome drinks. The RWA is Bristol's first art gallery and has brought world-class visual art to the Southwest since 1844. The conference dinner will be held in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. This beautiful building is a few minutes’ walk from the conference venue and has free entry to a collection of art, nature, and history.
In the spirit of our conference theme, we encourage you to think about your preparations for travel with sustainability in mind. In turn, we will work with a local sustainability team who will use our conference as a case study to explore how conferences can be delivered in a sustainable way.
We look forward to welcoming you to Bristol in July 2024.
Alyson & Rachel on behalf of the organising committee
Speakers
Schedule
Day 1 : Wednesday 3rd July
Wills Memorial Building
Room 3.32 - Primary care Academic CollaboraTive (PACT)
35 Berkeley square
Room 1.20 - Sexual health
Room 2.26 - Physical activity and exercise as medicine
Room 3.13 - Learning disability
Room 3.18 - Genetics
Room 4.01 - Quality and safety improvement
Room 4.02 - Medicines Optimisation
Wills Memorial Building
Room 3.32 - Inclusion health
35 Berkeley square
Room 1.20 - Women's health
Room 2.26 - Multiple long term conditions
Room 3.13 - Digital technologies in primary care
Room 3.18 - Palliative care
Room 4.01 - PPI
Room 4.02 - Kidney disease
Newcomers Welcome Space
Registration
Opening plenary
Welcome to Bristol - Chrissie Thirlwell — University of Bristol
Session Chair - Chris Salisbury
Care is a renewable resource: sustaining healthcare through responsive relationships
Parallel sessions 1A-1F
Full oral (10 minute presentation, 5 minute discussion)
Lightning (3 minute presentation, 2 minute discussion)
Workshop 1G
Networking/Refreshment break
Digital poster presentations 2A-2E (3 minute presentation, 2 minute discussion)
Parallel sessions 3A-3F
Full oral (10 minute presentation, 5 minute discussion)
Lightning (3 minute presentation, 2 minute discussion)
Workshop (3G)
The 10th Helen Lester Memorial Lecture
Caroline Mitchell. MBChB MD FRCGP PGCertMedEd
Are you feeling uncomfortable? Transform primary care research culture, abandon tokenism and embrace empowering methodologies
We live in an uncomfortable and unequal world. Professor Caroline Mitchell will share examples of research from UK primary care which chart a growing
‘Deep End’-inspired research movement to tackle health and research inequities through disruption of traditional research hierarchies and methods.
Expect challenge to the status quo, even discomfort. Many researchers may find kinship in a community of good practice and others may be empowered to shift the conversations within their own institutions to deliver research equity. Patients and the public rightly expect a change in how research is done - with and for them.
Drinks reception at Royal West of England Academy of Art
Your ticket includes two drinks, a selection of canapes, and you are welcome to enjoy the world class art on display.
Day 2 : Thursday 4th July
Conference run
Tai Chi - Meet at entrance to Wills Memorial Building at 7:50am
PHoCuS group breakfast meeting
Mental Health SIG meeting - Cancelled
Registration & refreshments
Plenary 2
Open notes meets OpenAI: Documentation in the era of large language model-powered bots
Associate Professor Charlotte Blease
Distinguished Papers from the annual meetings of AAAPC (Australasia) & NAPCRG (USA)
Alicia Agnoli: Mortality risk associated with dose tapering among patients prescribed long-term opioid therapy
Jenny Job: The feasibility and acceptability of implementing a tool to identify and provide management support for people at risk of frailty in general practice
SAPC ASM2024 Distinguished paper presentations
Dr Sam Merriel: Diagnostic accuracy of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer detection in primary care: the ProsDetect study (ID 2805)
Dr Georgette Eaton: Using realist approaches to explain and understand the optimal use of paramedics in primary care (ID 2740)
Networking/Refreshment break
Digital poster presentations 4A-4E
Parallel sessions 5A-5F
Full oral (10 minute presentation, 5 minute discussion)
Lightning (3 minute presentation, 2 minute discussion)
Workshop 5G
Lunch
SAPC Annual General Meeting
Great Hall (Red)
Parallel sessions 6A-6F
Full oral (10 minute presentation, 5 minute discussion)
Lightning (3 minute presentation, 2 minute discussion)
Workshop 6G
Professor Paul Wallace - Learning from a leader’s legacy
Digital poster presentations 7A-7E
Networking/Refreshments
Parallel sessions 8A-8E
Full oral (10 minute presentation, 5 minute discussion)
Lightning (3 minute presentation, 2 minute discussion)
Workshops 8F & 8G
Sing for happiness choir (Great Hall - Red)
St George’s Bristol and UWE researchers launch a ground-breaking new project around singing and wellbeing.
St George’s Bristol has teamed up with researchers from UWE Bristol to launch a ground-breaking new project, Sing for Happiness. Sing for Happiness is the first large-scale project researching the links between singing and wellbeing, and is currently seeking up to 500 local participants.
The project will run in a series of in-person sessions at St George’s across Spring 2024, with a final performance at Bristol Beacon in the summer. People from the Bristol area, of all singing abilities including total beginners, are encouraged to join the project. The sessions will be run by experienced local choir leaders, and participants will learn to sing popular songs and meet new people – as well as contributing to the innovative UWE research. It's hoped the research project’s results will provide data on how singing can be used in health and wellbeing contexts such as social prescribing.
Kat Branch, Head of UWE Bristol’s Centre for Music and research lead, said:
“We’re hoping to get as many people as possible to take part in the project – anyone can get involved. No research has been done on this scale before, and we’re really pleased to be collaborating with St George’s who have fantastic links in the Bristol community to make this happen.”
Samir Savant, Chief Executive of St George’s Bristol, said:
“We’re excited to work with UWE Bristol to uncover more about the link between singing and wellbeing. We hope participants of all abilities will want to join in with the Sing for Happiness project to learn some fantastic songs, and contribute to this ground-breaking research, even if they’ve never sung before. If you can speak, you can sing!”
Natalie Cooper, leader of the Bristol-based Melody Makers Choir, will be convening sessions during the project. Natalie said,
“People often tell me after a choir rehearsal how it has made them feel so much better. There’s nowhere like a choir – how many places can you go to genuinely make new friends, create beautiful music together, feel a sense of achievement, and feel safe knowing that everyone is equal?”
Ben England, musical director of the Bristol-based Homechoir.org will be convening online sessions during the project. Ben said,
“The physical and mental health benefits of singing are huge and are tangible for anyone who has sung in a choir before, but this wonderful project will bring academic rigour and evidence to support what we all know in our hearts - singing is really, really good for you.”
There is a participation cost for the project, which covers the costs of running the rehearsals and performances. However, St George’s Bristol and UWE recognise that cost may be a barrier for some people who would otherwise like to take part; if this is the case, please reach out to festivalofvoice@stgeorgesbristol.co.uk
This is the third large-scale, mass-participation singing project St George’s Bristol has run in recent years. Other projects included Sing for the King at Bristol Cathedral, with hundreds of singers marking the 2023 coronation of King Charles III, and a series of flash-mob choirs singing Handel’s ‘Messiah’ around Bristol in 2022.
Conference dinner at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Your ticket includes a two-course meal, drinks on arrival and with your meal, and a live band.
Day 3 : Friday 5th July
Meditation session
Networking/Refreshments
Registration opens
Plenary 3
Sustainable Primary Care: where we are… where we need to be...
Professor David Pencheon and Dr Tamsin Ellis
Session chair: Professor Trevor Thompson
Dangerous ideas soapbox
Chair: Professor Willie Hamilton
- Azam Saied - GPs should ask patients how it went
- Dipesh Gopal - Primary care should tackle healthcare inequalities but not health inequalities
- Chris Burton - All symptoms are wrong (but some symptoms are useful)
- Heidi Siddle - Treat RA like cancer
Networking/Refreshments
Digital poster presentations 9B-9E
Parallel sessions 10A-10F
Full oral (10 minute presentation, 5 minute discussion)
Lightning (3 minute presentation, 2 minute discussion)
Workshop 10G
Award winners' session
OECR - Academic General Practitioner - Stephen Bradley - Improving diagnosis of symptomatic lung cancer in general practice
OECR - Primary Care Scientist - Ben Bowers - Advancing community nurse-led research
SAPC Doctoral award - To be announced
Prize giving and SAPC ASM 2025 preview
Lunch to take away and conference close
Venue
Hotel booking link https://meetbristolbathres.bzon.uk/event/sapc-annual-scientific-meeting3-5-july-2024/
Alternative options (book direct):
Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre
Holiday Inn Bristol City Centre
Hilton Garden Inn Bristol City Centre
Ibis Bristol Temple Meads Quay
OYO The Regency, Clifton Bristol
Travel Lodge Bristol Central Mitchell Lane
Premier Inn Bristol City Centre (Lewins Mead)
Premier Inn Bristol City Centre (Finzels Reach)
Premier Inn Bristol City Centre (King Street) This Premier Inn hosts the local Bar + Block which can be found here