This qualitative scoping study exploring career paths of current members of the academic primary care community. The study spoke with staff at various career stages, including people with research and education roles. Both clinicians and Primary...

SAPC is part of an international collaboration to enhance capacity for academic primary care. This report describes work undertaken with the Australian Association for Academic Primary Care ( AAAPC ) and the Primary Health Care Research and...

Second prize in the 2014 SAPC Dangerous Ideas soapbox went to Robert Fleetcroft and Amanda Howe, who gave us a role play to show us why they believe Significant Event reviews would be better if the patient was present. Read their report of their...

The latest of the SAPC Hot Topic papers, published in our sister journal Primary Health Care Research & Development , looks at how we raise the profile of APC. The report considers both the opportunities and the necessity to make academic...

In this latest SAPC Hot Topic article , Sarah Mosedale and Paul Wallace provide an overview of NHS organisational changes focusing on the implications and opportunities for academic primary care. In particular, the importance of describing a clear...

The 2013 winning entry in the SAPC Dangerous Ideas soapbox proposed that physiotherapists, not GPs, would be the best gatekeepers for primary care musculoskeletal services. Annette Bishop, Nadine Foster and Peter Croft explain their ideas in this...

The inaugural winner of the SAPC annual Dangerous Ideas soapbox competition offered an example of blue sky thinking making a difference in primary care. Scott Murray argued that since death is a fact of life, we need to spend more time talking about...

This SAPC Hot Topic article responded to the recent report by Professor Graham Watt calling for greater recognition of the importance of blue sky research in primary care. Joanne Reeve and Christian Mallen discuss the challenges for the APC...