Abstracts

Our audience is academics, clinicians and patient representatives. The IPCRG welcomes abstracts from academics and all members of the multi-professional team, including patients and patient representatives, so long as it is relevant to primary care/family medicine and the global respiratory community. Topics should be related to the prevention, diagnosis, management and palliation of communicable and non-communicable respiratory diseases, respiratory risk factor in family medicine/primary care, 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 26th September 2026. Abstracts submitted by the end of the UK day on Tuesday 1st December 2026 will be reviewed early.

For this conference, 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. See examples of this sort of presentation.

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 an established research method. You must include data and the work 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 have been carefully planned but are 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 and Evaluation
Service development and 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. These can include surveys. The abstract 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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The official language in which abstracts must be written is English. We accept that you might wish to write your abstract in another language and then translate. Please note, however, that you will need to create your presentation/poster in English and be prepared to answer questions in English. You are welcome to ask for help to review and rehearse, and to identify someone to work with you, if your abstract is accepted.

As an international conference, the presenting language is English, which ensures that all conference delegates can learn about your work. However, we understand that it can be challenging for people who do not use English frequently in their daily lives to write and present in English. We are again pleased to offer support to make our conference as inclusive as possible. We can support you, for example, by:

• Connecting to peer support within your country/language
• Reviewing the readability and sense of the English
• Using our multidisciplinary network to connect you to a specialist mentor
• Practice runs of your presentation, at the conference venue or online

If you feel you could benefit from this assistance, or if it would help you to present at our conference, please let us know via events@ipcrg.org. We want to enable you to share your work, which benefits our whole community.

Please read our policy on the use of AI in the production of scientific abstracts for this conference

For questions and enquiries about abstracts please contact us at events@ipcrg.org