SAPC News & current events

Candace Imison  from Nuffield Trust is a keynote speaker at this week's SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting.

She will be speaking on future directions for primary care.

Nuffield Trust are currently doing a survey of GP practice based staff on their thoughts for the future.

You can join the survey by clicking here

Kate O'Donnell chaired her first SAPC AGM on Thursday 13th July 2017 at the University of Warwick.

"We have had another busy year promoting and supporting academic primary care. 

The work of SAPC members has been recognised in multiple awards made by the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Jo Protheroe, SAPC Treasurer & SIG lead and Senior Academic GP at Keele, has been awarded the 2018 RCGP John Fry award for her leadership and work in the field of Health Literacy.

Professor Chris Dowrick, Professor of Primary Medical Care at Liverpool and Chair of the Working Party for Mental Health at WONCA, will receive the RCGP George Abercrombie award for special meritorious literary work in General Practice. 

Professor Kate O'Donnell, SAPC Chair and Professor of Primary Care at Glasgow, has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of the College - RCGP's most important award, offered in recognition of outstanding contribution to the work and the goals of the discipline and the College.

Applications for the 2017 NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) are now open.

The NIA is recruiting exceptional individuals with evidence-based ready-to-scale innovations to join its new cohort.

Full details, including how to apply, are here or read on for more information.

For 2017, the NIA is seeking local, national and international innovations that address the following NHS priorities:

Senior members of SAPC have responded to plans announced by Health Education England to cut the educational support budget for GP training by 30% from next year. In a letter published in the BMJ on 18th May (in print on 27th May), the Chair, representatives of the Heads of Departments and Heads of Teaching, along with other senior academics in SAPC, expressed their disquiet at this decision.

This seminar focuses around the discipline of primary care research. It will provide intellectual stimulation, discussion, and a glimpse into how general practice can become stronger through primary care research.

FREE for AiTs. Open to all AiTs and First5 GPs in the West Midlands - places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis and limited numbers apply. Study leave has been approved. Co-hosted by Health Education West Midland and RCGP-Midland Faculty.  

Date: Tuesday 18th of July, 13:30-17:00.

Congratulations to Dr Nathan Davies, University College London, who is this year's winner of the Yvonne Carter award for outstanding new researcher awarded by RCGP and SAPC.

Here are a couple of links to the announcement:

RCGP Clinical Update

RCGP prizes page - scroll down to view the Yvonne Carter award

Congratulations to Professors Christine Bond and Sandra Eldridge who lead the SAPC PHoCuS group:

• Christine Bond has been made a fellow of RCGP.
• Sandra Eldridge has been awarded an NIHR Senior Investigator award.

The 2nd annual symposium on symptoms in Primary Care will be held on September 22-23 2017 in The Netherlands.

Invitations for abstract submission is open with the deadline extended to June 1st.

Full details are available on the symposium webpage.

This year's SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting programme includes a day aimed at meeting the CPD needs of practising clinicians. Find our more here and on the conference webpage