Dangerous Ideas Soapbox 2025

SUBMIT FOR DANGEROUS IDEAS SOAPBOX HERE

The SAPC Dangerous Ideas Soapbox is BACK AGAIN!

'Experience is the name one gives to ones mistakes' This session encourages risk taking! 

This is your opportunity to stimulate conversation and debate. 

At a time of significant change and challenge in the world of primary care, we need critical and creative ideas to help find solutions to problems affecting patients and practitioners.

Dangerous Ideas should represent blue sky thinking - and we want to hear your thoughts. An idea can’t be dangerous if it stays silently inside one person’s head.

SAPC ASM aims to bring people together in a festival of ideas; there’s room for brand new conversation and experimentation just as much as evaluation of existing research.

The Dangerous Ideas Soapbox facilitates thought experiments in a fun and friendly way: 2 minute pitches followed by debate open to the floor.

Voting and vetoing strongly encouraged. An open mind is essential.

Do YOU have a dangerous idea? Want to challenge the status quo? Join us at SAPC ASM 2025.

Submission Details

  • A Dangerous Idea is something which challenges, but also demonstrates a commitment to action and making a difference.
  • Speakers have 2 minutes to pitch a Dangerous Idea – outlining your idea, why it matters and how you will make it happen.
  • Each pitch may be accompanied by one PowerPoint slide.
  • The audience are asked to vote for the best idea - the one that they most feel needs to be heard. 
  • We ask you to chose an idea that is new (challenging, even provocative); that recognises and resonates with the vision of driving improvement in primary care through scholarship; and has the potential to make a difference.

Background

Launched in 2012, the Dangerous Ideas Soapbox was inspired by the model at Sydney Opera House and St James Ethics Centre which brings speakers together to raise “important questions…as a catalyst for sharp and vibrant discussion”.

Find out more by reading our past winning ideas. 

2016 round-up of all the ideas is here The winning idea came from Antony Chuter, arguing that it is time for a revolution in community pharmacy. Equal 2nd prize went to Austin O'Carroll arguing that medical community discriminates against the homeless, and Sarah Alderson who proposed that GPs shouldn't prescribe opioids except in terminal illness.

2015 winning idea: Health research should be crowd-funded through Kickstarter

2014 winning ideas: 1st - Addressing antibiotic resistance with the Krapsule  2nd - Involving patients to improve Significant Event audits  3rd - Virtual GP: replacing GP training with an app

2024 winning ideas : 1st - GP's should ask patients how it went 2nd - Primary care should tackle healthcare inequalities but not health inequalities 3rd - All symptoms are wrong (but some symptoms are useful) 4th - Treat RA like cancer