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Congratulations to the Winner of this year's Medical Student Essay, 2025, Shirin Massroor.
Congratulations to Highly Commended entries, from Daya Sumra and Shreeya Mehta.
Thank you to all of you who submitted an entry; you should be extremely proud of the work you are doing. A high number of submissions were received, which were of very high-quality and interesting.
Congratulations to this year's winner, Rachel Johnson, of Bristol University.
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Congratulations to SAPC 2025 Doctoral Winner, Lily Taylor, Cambridge University
Please come join the new Continuity of Care SIG at it’s launch at SAPC 2025!
We will be meeting in the Caerleon suite, 2nd floor of the conference venue from 10-11am on Tuesday 8 July.
Academics at Aston University in collaboration with colleagues from the Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Community Connexions programme have written a blog for the NIHR School of Primary Care Research entitled: Developing guidance for researchers on how to involve and partner with ethnically diverse communities in research. For a link to the blog and the guidance, check the following link: https://www.spcr.nihr.ac.uk/news/blog/diverse-communities-in-research-guidance.
Due to the high number of successful abstract acceptances, the SAPC NIGH Primary Care Mental Health Conference on the 14th May 2025 will now conclude at 4:30 PM instead of 3:30 PM.
This extension ensures all presentations receive adequate time. Please adjust your schedules accordingly and thank you for your understanding and participation in making this conference a success.
We are saddened to hear of the death of David Metcalfe. Our thoughts go out to his colleagues, family and friends.
Please see the tribute written by John Howie below.
Professor David Metcalfe
With the passing of David Metcalfe on 26th February, the UK has lost one of the truly influential leaders from the formative years of general practice as an academic discipline.