Registration open for the Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

View of coloured houses by Bristol harbour with extended early bird deadline of 24 May.

11 April 2024

You can now register for this year’s Society for Academic Primary Care Annual Scientific Meeting (SAPC ASM) , which is being held at the University of Bristol on 3-5 July.

*Update at 1 May: early bird deadline extended to 24 May*

The conference will welcome over 300 delegates from across the country and beyond. The Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) is the leading organisation championing academic primary care in the UK. The theme for the conference is ‘Sustainable Primary Care: healthy systems, healthy people’.

The conference is for anyone with an interest in primary care, including:

primary care researchers across a wide range of disciplines
primary care practitioners
people working in primary care teaching
commissioners and policy makers
patients and members of the public involved in primary care research.

See the programme.

Early bird rate

There is an early bird rate for people who register by the extended deadline of 24 May (was 3 May).

Check out the rates.

Speakers announced

We are delighted to announce the following speakers:

The 10th Helen Lester Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Caroline Mitchell, a GP and Professor of General Practice, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Keele University (formerly at University of Sheffield).

Our opening plenary will be delivered by Professor Frances Mair and Professor Victor Montori.

Frances Mair is the Norie Miller Professor of General Practice, Head of General Practice and Primary Care, at the University of Glasgow.
Victor M. Montori MD, who will be joining us online, is the Robert H. and Susan M. Rewoldt Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic.

Our third plenary speaker will be:

Dr Charlotte Blease, Associate Professor at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden and Research Affiliate at Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston.

For more information about our speakers, please visit the conference website.

On the final day we will have a panel discussion around our conference theme, and are delighted to announce that our panellists are Dr David Pencheon and Dr Tamsin Ellis.

Keep in touch

Keep an eye out for updates on X/Twitter using the hashtag #SAPC2024, and visit the SAPC ASM website.

We look forward to you joining us in the vibrant city of Bristol.

Further information

About the Centre for Academic Primary Care

The Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) at the University of Bristol is a leading centre for primary care research in the UK, one of nine forming the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. It sits within Bristol Medical School, an internationally recognised centre of excellence for population health research and teaching. Follow on X: @capcbristol and on LinkedIn.