Dangerous Ideas

The 5th annual SAPC Dangerous Ideas soapbox saw 6 speakers propose a range of ideas to improve primary care.These included the reorganisation of community pharmacy together with the reinstatement of generalist leadership. Offered alongside partly-tongue-in-cheek critiques of current opiod prescribing, care for the homeless, shared decision making and 'moaning' GPs. The six speakers pitched their ideas to a lively SAPC audience who voted for the introduction of a new Amazon-esque style approach to medicines management! (Almost...) Next year''s Dangerous Ideas soapbox will be held at the ASM in Warwick.

Third prize at the 2014 SAPC Dangerous Ideas Soapbox went to Mica Skilton, a 3rd year medical student at Birmingham University. She argued that much of Undergraduate GP skills training could be replaced by an app. She describes her ideas for this new Virtual GP venture in the British Journal of General Practice.

Resistant superbugs and the potential of the microbiome

Our 2014 soapbox winners proposed that we address the global threat of antibiotic resistance with the Krapsule!

At a time of significant change and challenge in the world of primary care, we need critical creative ideas to help find solutions. SAPC has recognised the need to expand the capacity for blue sky thinking and basic research in primary care. Conferences offer a key opportunity to bring people together – to create a ‘festival for ideas’, stimulating new conversations and new thoughts as well as critiques of existing ideas.

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