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...

SAPC champions expertise in education and research driving constant improvement in primary care provision. The impact of our work was celebrated in the latest University Research Excellence review. The IRIS study run by the University of Bristol Primary Care team aimed to tackle domestic violence through a novel training and support package for primary care.Domestic violence (DV) has a devastating public health, clinical and economic impact on women. It is also a major breach of human rights. IRIS (Identification and Referral to Improve Safety), a University of Bristol led randomised...

SAPC champions expertise in Academic Primary Care driving improvements in primary care provision. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework review of University based academic work celebrated several examples of APC making a diference. One example was this study from the Primary Care team at the University of Birmingham. High blood pressure (or hypertension) is the major cause of stroke and other cardiovascular disease, and is one of the most important preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in developed and developing countries. In the UK it affects half the population over 60 and costs...