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Essay subject: "A consultation in primary care that changed my practice"
Dr Olivia Jagger and Dr Emily Donovan, both GP ST3 and Academic Clinical Fellows, University of Southampton rose to the challenge of writing this paper on their experience of attending the SAPC ASM 2019 in Exeter (3-5 July 2019).
SAPC is grateful to Sage Journals and the Royal College of General Practitioners for allowing free access to this paper until 6th August 2020
Here is a message from Dr Sally Flint, University of Exeter, who gave a recital of some of her work at the SAPC ASM 2019 in Exeter, inviting contributions to the Climate Matters 2020 antholgoy.
We are delighted to announce that this year's winner is Dr Sarah Mitchell.
There have been a number of important contributions from SAPC members to the evidence-base which will support clinicians in their work.
Study by Edge Hill and Keele Universities
Children on coronavirus: ‘Don’t just tell us to wash our hands and say it will be okay’
COVID-19 research - update from University of Bristol
BJGPLife is the British Journal of General Practice's multimedia communication platform and first choice for comment, opinion, ideas and experience. It is accessible directly from the BJGP website and is an integral and essential part of the BJGP package. It has already taken on a new life with video interviews and contemporary comment with particular focus on the Covid-19 crisis.
In March we announced the cancellation of our Annual Scientific Meeting in Leeds in July – a decision which had to be made early to prevent financial losses. A big thanks must go to Richard Neal and Suzanne Richards and their team who had spent many hours on organising what was promising to be an excellent ASM.
We also saw the cancellation of two conferences related to Special Interest Groups – Health Literacy and Mental Health. You can see the abstracts submitted to the Primary Care Mental Health Conference.
Many thanks to Emily Cottrell, Hugh Alberti and Trevor Thompson who have now prepared a report on our 2018 national survey of all UK Heads of GP teaching.
We are very grateful to them for all their efforts.
This was a cross-sectional questionnaire study which aimed to:
Many congratulations to Professor Martin Marshall (Professor of Healthcare Improvement, University College London) who will be the next Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, taking over from Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard in November. Professor Marshall is current Vice-Chair (external Affairs) RCGP. He was a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission until 2012. He has over 200 publications in the field of quality of care and in 2005 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for Services to Health Care.
Congratulations to all the prize winners at the 48th SAPC annual scientific meeting held at the University of Exeter from 3rd to 5th July 2019.
Christian Mallen, Keele, was announced as the winner of SAPC's inaugural principal investigator's award along with the conference prize winners in the final plenary of the conference.
