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SAPC ASM 2017 - Warwick

Wednesday 12th to Friday 14th July 2017

Theme: Pioneering Change

A huge thank you to everyone who took part in the SAPC ASM 2017 at the University of Warwick to make it such a success.  Over 340 delegates registered to attend and over 250 presentations were given. 

Keynote videos

View the videos of the keynote speakers including Mark Gilman's Helen Lester Memorial Lecture.

Highlights

Thank you to Jenni Burt and Domhnall Macauley for their brilliant round ups.

Jenni Burt. Sparkle and joy: a totally one sided round up of the 46th SAPC ASM

Domhnall MacAuley (CMAJ  Blogs):

Multimorbidity and the challenges of primary care practice at SAPC Day 1 and
Rediscovering enjoyment of general practice – SAPC Day 2

Prize winners

Prizes were presented in the closing session to:

Early career prize - Matthew Booker, Bristol

Why do 'primary care' problems result in contact with the ambulance service? Findings from an ethnographic study

NAPCRG/SAPC Junior travel award - John Barber, UCL

Facilitators and barriers to teaching undergraduate medical students in primary care: The GPs’ perspective

NAPCRG/SAPC Senior award - Louise Robinson, Newcastle

The Newcastle 85+ study: health care use by the very old increase as they age - true or false?

Congratulations!

 

Welcome

We are delighted to be welcoming you to Warwick University for the 2017 SAPC Annual Scientific Meeting.

Warwick Primary Care are proud to be working together with Coventry & Rugby CCG and our local primary care community to pioneer change. So we are excited by this opportunity to showcase both your work and what we are doing – by inviting you to join a celebration of the impact of, and potential for, academic primary care in driving improvements in primary care.

The Conference programme will, as ever, be dedicated to providing opportunities to share your work. We will have popular favourites – Dangerous Ideas, SIGs, PHOCUS meetings. Along with some new features – methodology workshops, a masterclass for education researchers.

The full programme will be added to this page by the middle of June. 

Details will be posted here over the coming weeks so book mark this page!

And we look forward to seeing you in Warwick in July.

The Audience

This annual conference brings together researchers and educators from the primary care community to showcase their latest studies on any aspect or issues relating to primary care. This is a great opportunity for you to share your work, join the conversation and shape the future of primary care. 

Presentations

Here is information about the types of presentation that will be included in the programme.

The deadline for submission of abstracts was Sunday 19th February 2017 before midnight - abstract submission is now closed.

Thank you to everyone who submitted work to the conference, the peer review process is now complete and authors have been notified by email.  If you haven't yet heard please let us know by email.

Pre-conference workshops

The SAPC series of pre-conference workshops is continuing this year.  The workshops will take place on the morning of Wednesday 12th July from 09:30 to 12:00 and places can be booked by on-line registration at £50 per person.

Workshop 2 - an introduction to health technology assessment

We have withdrawn workshop 1 which was on mental health.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Workshops

Find out more about the Special Interest Groups on Wednesday 12th July and Workshops throughout the conference.

Registration

On-line registration is open Early bird deadline 6th May after that you can still register but the fees will rise. 

Please note the welcome social event on Wednesday: drinks reception and buffet supper is included in the registration fee but still needs to be requested as a separate ticket and the conference dinner on Thursday is not included in the registration fee.

You can view the table of registration fees including eligibility for student and academic clinical fellow rates. 

Bursaries of £100 towards the full fee are available - information about the bursaries and eligibility.

Accommodation

See venue below.

Prof Joanne Reeve

Hull York Medical School
Chair of HODs (2020-23), Wise GP lead, SAPC mentor, SAPC Chair (2013-16), ASM 2017 Conference Chair

Prof Helen Atherton

University of Southampton
2017 organising committee, former executive team member, Early Career Academic Group Lead 2012-2016

Prof Jeremy Dale

Jeremy Dale
Warwick Medical School
2017 organising committee

Dr Sarah Mitchell

Warwick - Unit of Primary Care
2017 organising committee

Abi Eccles

Abi Eccles
Warwick - Unit of Primary Care
2017 organising committee

Helen McGowan

Warwick - Unit of Primary Care
2017 organising committee

Sue Stewart

Sue Stewart
SAPC Secretariat and Conference Manager (Retired)

Sharon Pidgeon

Photo of Sharon Pidgeon
SAPC Conference Operations