Sarah Mitchell, Associate Clinical Professor of Palliative Care at the University of Leeds, has been appointed Interim National Clinical Director for Palliative and End-of-Life Care for NHS England. Sarah also works as a GP in Sheffield and was the...

The RCGP Scientific Foundation Board (SFB) and the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Awards for Outstanding Early Career Researchers. Dr Benjamin Brown is the winner of the Academic General...

We are pleased to announce an update on the winner of the 2022 RCGP/SAPC elective prize. The winner is Ioan Dafydd Wardhaugh, a Medical Student from the University of Liverpool. Iaon spent a four week elective in a general practice in a Welsh rural...

I am really excited to welcome you all to this year’s annual scientific meeting, which we are hosting for the first time ever in Brighton. This is SAPC’s second in-person conference since the restrictions necessitated by the covid-19 pandemic have...

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If you care about improving mental health and wellbeing in underserved population then you can help map healthcare support for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by taking a few minutes to complete this national survey. The...

The Primary Care Clinicians PhD programme are delighted to announce that the second round of the Wellcome funded Doctoral Training Programme for Primary Care clinicians is now launched! This Primary Care Clinicians PhD programme will contribute to...

We are deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty the Queen and grateful for her many years of public service. Our sympathies are with the Royal Family. Link to BBC webpage

Congratulations from SAPC to Professor Kamila Hawthorne who has been elected as next Chair of Council, RCGP, from November 2022. Kamila is a salaried GP in Mountain Ash, South Wales, and is currently Provost of the SE Wales Faculty of the RCGP. She...

Congratulations to Dr Rupert Payne and Dr Duncan Shrewsbury who became Co-Chairs of SAPC at the AGM on 6th July 2022 at UCLan. They succeeded Prof Carolyn Chew-Graham who had completed her 3 year term as Chair (2019-2022).