I am delighted to have been awarded the SAPC PhD Prize 2021. As a Health Psychologist and Behavioural Scientist, one of my research interests is in how routine medical services and procedures can impact on mental wellbeing and health behaviours. Often, my work means working collaboratively with a range of stakeholders in policy, primary care, and population health. Over the last four years, I’ve been focussing on the psychological impact of women receiving different test results at cervical cancer screening. Particularly, evaluating a new cervical screening method called human papillomavirus...

Introducing the SAPC-HODS Future Leaders Initiative The SAPC-HODs group is the representative body of each of the Heads of Departments from the 46 departments of Academic Primary Care represented in SAPC. SAPC-HODs is responsible for overseeing the strategic and practical support for primary care academic activity within its member departments. HODs serves both an executive function in supporting individual and collective action of HODs and departments, and a strategic/leadership function in supporting the collective goals of SAPC. In 2021, SAPC-HODS are launching a new Future Leaders...

The need for new approaches to undergraduate teaching in general practice was brought starkly into focus by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. A range of novel educational resources, developed by SAPC Heads of GP Teaching (HoTs), in partnership with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Medical Schools Council (MSC), has proved invaluable in supporting medical students’ learning in general practice. Three of these SAPC led resources, now available to all UK and Ireland medical schools, are introduced below and will be featured in the Education keynote on the...

In 2021, we will be holding an election for four general member places on SAPC Executive , to serve from July 2021-2024. In addition we are seeking nominations for a vice-chair who will serve from July 2021-2022 and will become chair in 2022 (until 2025). The Executive team lead the work of SAPC to raise the profile of Academic Primary Care, build a vibrant workforce by helping people get into and progress in APC, and enhance the impact of our work through supporting collaborations. Each Executive member leads on an area of work for the Society. Details of the current team can be found on the...

The Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) and the Division of Primary Care, Palliative Care and Public Health at the University of Leeds is delighted to be hosting the 49th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the SAPC to be held on Wednesday 30th June and Thursday 1st July 2021. This will be a virtual meeting comprising our usual programme features of keynotes, oral presentations within parallel sessions, workshops and posters. Opportunities will be available for networking on-line on a one to one basis and in groups. There will be dedicted discussion time for posters. Poster presenters...

The University of Leeds, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, is managing the Scientific Programme of the annual SAPC conference, which showcases the latest research and education in academic primary care. In 2021 the conference will be virtual. Submission deadline 28th February 2021. We invite you to submit work in the following formats: Presentations: short orals (between 3 and 6 minutes) or "super" posters - review criteria SUBMISSION FORM (link closed) Interactive workshops - submission form and review criteria - link closed Creative enquiry and how to submit - review criteria Conference...

CHAMPIONING THE KNOWLEDGE WORK OF PRIMARY CARE Join us at this year's SAPC North first ever on-line conference to celebrate all that we do so that we can optimise the impact of our work. It is nearly a year since members of SAPC North met in Preston to share work, ideas and stories. Despite all that has happened since, our community have continued to champion scholarship at the heart of excellent primary care. Delivering innovation and best practice in teaching, research, quality improvement and clinical practice to ensure that primary care continues to serve as the bed rock of the NHS. This...

We had planned to hold SAPC's Annual General Meeting on 16th July 2020 but this will not take place physically this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We are providing the papers for the AGM on-line (links below). We ask you to read the papers and encourage you to email any questions or suggestions you might have to the SAPC office office@sapc.ac.uk . Please do this before 31st July 2020. We will keep a record of correspondence and summarise it as draft notes from AGM 2020. The AGM next year will be held on 1st July 2021 at the University of Leeds durikng the 49th Annual Scientific Meeting...

Click the image below to view Sarah's presentation The cartoons in the presentation slides are from StoryboardThat . An introduction by Carolyn Chew-Graham, SAPC Chair and comment from Sarah can be found below Introduction by Carolyn Chew-Graham Nick Thomas (Clinical Research Lead, RCGP) and I had great pleasure in attending a 'virtual' seminar hosted by St Luke's Hospice, Sheffield, at which the winner of the Yvonne Carter award, Sarah Mitchell, presented her PhD study 'a realist inquiry into the delivery of palliative care to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions'...

“Nosotros” Approach: Community health workers as trust builders and community healers Authors: RL Ferrer, CG Schlenker, RS Poursani, I Cruz, P Noel, R Palmer, CR Jaén Department of Family and Community Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, Texas, USA Context: Promoting patients’ commitment to engage in self-care is a core goal of primary care, yet often elusive in the context of social deprivation. Objective: To report on an innovative, practice-integrated, community health worker (CHW) intervention designed to promote trusting relationships and effective self-care in patients with type 2 diabetes...