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This page lists all UK university departments and groups of academic primary care. All institutions are represented in the Heads of Departments group and every department can has a SAPC Ambassador who acts as a link between the unit and SAPC.
We provide a departmental resource pack to support their work. If you are a department listed here and don't yet have an Ambassador, please contact us
Hull York Medical School is the joint medical school of the Universities of Hull and York
It has a reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting, contemporary schools, offering innovative and rigorous medical education; and delivering world class research
IGHI is focused on the co-creation and diffusion of healthcare innovation to tackle some of the most pressing global challenges facing people today.
91% of Keele’s research in Primary Care has been judged world leading or internationally excellent by the Public Health, Health Services Research, and Primary Care assessment panel of the 2014 Universities UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). On the basis of World Leading or Internationally Excellent research (3* and 4*), Keele is ranked 3rd nationally.
CHSS is one of three research centres within the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent. We have close links with our colleagues in the other two centres, PSSRU and the Tizard Centre.
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston was founded in 1828 as the Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge. ‘Ex solo ad solem’, or in translation, ‘From the Earth to the Sun’, has been its motto ever since – helping people from all walks of life to make the most of their potential is what UCLan’s all about.
The Academic Unit of Primary Care (AUPC) helps support, develop, promote and study primary care in West Yorkshire. Members of the unit, in partnership with University and NHS colleagues, undertake and support primary care research and provide high quality educational programmes at postgraduate and undergraduate level.
Here at Leeds Beckett, we are a modern professional university with ambition.
Based in the vibrant city of Leeds, the biggest financial district outside of London, our vision is to be acknowledged for our commitment to student success, innovation and enterprise, global reach, and strong local impact.
The Department of Medical Education sits within the Department of Medical and Social Care Education.
The Division of Primary Care is made up of researchers across the Department of Health Sciences and Leicester Diabetes Centre who undertake Primary Care Research.
The Division has three research groups: Quality and Service Delivery (QSD), Social and Epidemiological Psychiatry, and the Diabetes Research Centre. Academics from other research groups who conduct research in primary are also members.
The graduate entry medical programme at the University of Limerick will produce doctors who are competent, confident and caring; who understand the scientific basis of medicine; who recognise the social and environmental context in which health and illness exist and in which medicine is practised; and who have skills for and commitment to service, teamwork, scientific enquiry, self-fulfilment and life-long learning.
The Community and Health Research Unit (CaHRU) is the research centre of the School of Health and Social Care, in the College of Social Science at the University of Lincoln and allied with the Lincoln Institute for Health.
The Department of Primary care in Liverpool aims to stimulate conversations about primary care: to raise awareness, stimulate debate and develop new channels of communication about the meaning and value of the distinctive PC and APC approaches; as well as the challenges facing them both
City University London is a leading international University and the only university in London to be both committed to academic excellence and focused on business and the professions.
City University London is a special place. With skill and dedication, we have been using education, research and enterprise to transform the lives of our students, our community and the world for over a hundred years.
The Imperial College London School of Public Health contributes to achieving better health in the population through:
The School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences provides the focus for community-based, public health and rehabilitation research and teaching within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. We have 150 academic, clinical, research and professional service staff working across two Departments, theDepartment of Primary Care & Public Health Sciences and the Department of Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation.
Based in Whitechapel in the heart of London's east end, the Centre aims to deliver world leading research and education to inform and support local and global primary care and public health policy.
We are a large multi-disciplinary research department located within the UCL Royal Free Campus at Hampstead.
The Department is a part of the Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care within the Faculty of Population Health Sciences
The School of Health and Social Care comprises five leading-edge subject areas: Adult Nursing and Midwifery, Allied Health Sciences, Children’s Nursing, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, and Primary and Social Care, as well our Institute of Vocational Learning which supports career development for working professionals. You can choose from a wide range of accredited courses, which will prepare you for a variety of careers in health and social care.
We pride ourselves on providing the best possible experience for our students - building on over 250 years of innovation and keeping pace with the health challenges of a changing NHS. Our dedication to students, staff and alumni is built on a commitment we share with them in improving and advancing health.
Primary care research and postgraduate teaching in Manchester covers a broad range of policy and practice themes relevant to primary care and the NHS. The group is a large and lively complement of multi-disciplinary researchers interested in researching a wide range of topics relevant to primary care and policy.
Our eclectic and broad view of what primary care is has helped shape the strategic focus of our long-term research, which is characterised by a blend of contributions from a wide range of disciplines. These include: