This new workshop at SAPC ASM 2015 led by Jeremy Horwood, SAPC Communications Officer from Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), University of Bristol and Nadya Anscombe, freelance journalist and Communications Officer for CAPC, aimed to provide practice advice and tips on how to work with journalist to best deliver research messages. The workshop explored what questions to ask when first approached by a journalist to help decide if to undertake an interview, how to best communicate complex subjects to a wider audience, advice on interview techniques to stay in control of the conversation...

An annual award of £1000 is offered to support the international development of promising researchers in primary care. It is intended to enable the award winner to have the opportunity to develop international networks and partnerships by meeting and collaborating with researchers in other countries or attending and presenting work at an international research meeting. Professor Yvonne Carter CBE was an outstanding and inspirational leader who had a remarkable impact on academic general practice and this award was instituted to commemorate her outstanding contribution to primary care research...