International Primary Care Respiratory Group Conference TEST

Our audience is academics, clinicians and patient representatives. The IPCRG welcomes abstracts from academics and all members of the multi-professional team, including patients & patient representatives, so long as it is relevant to family medicine and the global respiratory community. Topics should be related to the prevention, diagnosis, management & palliation of communicable & non-communicable respiratory diseases & respiratory risk factor in family medicine, primary care centres, outpatient clinics and other settings where diagnosis and prescription is carried out. Abstracts are a maximum of 300 words and may include one figure or table. The call for abstracts opens 1st October 2026. Abstracts submitted by the end of the UK day on 1st December 2026 will be reviewed early.

For 2027 we are particularly encouraging abstracts which include leveraging (big) data to improve family medicine and primary care practice. This can include the use of AI and applications beyond scientific research, such as through social media, electronic health records, generating, developing and analysing big data sets and links to guidelines and their implementation.

We are again accepting abstracts for Creative Enquiry Presentations, which express the lived experience through creative or artistic media to help think creatively. This can include videos or multimedia presentations. These can be proposed in all 3 abstract categories. Simply tick the ‘creative communications’ box if you wish to present in this format. Examples of this sort of presentation can be found here.

Clinical Research Results
Your abstract may be a summary of the findings of exploratory, effectiveness or implementation research that addresses a clinical question and uses a research method. You must include data and the work must be relevant to a primary care audience with an interest in respiratory health. Bear in mind that the IPCRG campaigns for patient care to be evidence-based, using evidence from real life, that includes populations representative of primary care populations.

The questions from our Research Prioritisation exercise provide a useful guide to what would be of most interest to our audience.

 
Use the IMRaD format (meta-analyses may require a different format), including an Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion. 

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Research Ideas
The Research ideas category is for proposals for research that has been carefully planned but is yet to be conducted. This can include protocols for approved research, which may already be underway.

The abstract should include the Research question, Background, Methodology and Questions to discuss.

The IPCRG actively encourages primary care practitioners to submit an abstract, being aware that there are few academic centres of primary respiratory care. We would be delighted to receive abstracts describing a research question and a methodology that can then benefit from peer discussion and challenge to increase research capability in primary care respiratory research.

The questions from our Research Prioritisation exercise are a good starting point for your research ideas, and ideas can include air quality, tobacco use and dependence, physical activity, breathlessness, cough, asthma, COPD, multi-morbidity including chronic respiratory disease, respiratory infections including TB, RSV, and post-COVID syndrome.

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Service Development & Evaluation
Service Development & Evaluation Abstracts should evaluate an intervention to create and/or improve a service or interventions that benefit respiratory health, including educational interventions and quality improvement programmes. This can include surveys.

It should include the aim, outline of context, a brief description of the change and why you thought it would work, your strategy for change, impact and lessons learned.

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