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Academic primary care improves primary care. To maximise impact from academic primary care, we need a strong workforce. This report forms part of SAPC’s ongoing work to examine barriers and enablers to careers in academic primary care. It makes recommendations for work needed to maximise the potential for academic primary care to make a difference.
This qualitative scoping study exploring career paths of current members of the academic primary care community. The study spoke with staff at various career stages, including people with research and education roles. Both clinicians and Primary Healthcare scientists were included in the study. The report highlights some common problems experienced across the academic primary care community.
At the 2015 Annual Conference, we launched a new series of SAPC preconference career workshops - offering practical support for the challenges of our daily work.
We ran two workshops this year:
'Getting on in academic primary care' was co-hosted by SAPC (Dr Joanne Reeve and Professor Chris Dowrick) and NIHR (Dr Martin Ashton-Key and Kate Dowson).
'What to do when a journalist calls' was run by SAPC Exec member Dr Jeremy Horwood, with the help of Dr Nadya Anscombe.
SAPC champions excellent academic primary care at the heart of constant improvement in primary care provision. We support your work and your career through improving public, political and professional understanding of why what we do matters.
Building and sustaining a vibrant Academic Primary Care workforce lies at the heart of what we do.https://sapc.ac.uk/article/sapc-developing-strategic-plan
SAPC is leading a work stream, in conjunction with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) who are committed to supporting research active general practice ( see document ‘RCGP: The 2022 GP. A Vision for General Practice in the Future NHS’ ). The work stream aims to understand and develop the eGP role and is keen to work in partnership with the wider primary care community.