PACT Champions

PACT Champions are PACT members who take on a voluntary leadership role within their practices for a PACT project that they are participating in. By becoming a PACT Champion you will gain practical research experience with recruitment, data collection troubleshooting, and utilisation of local research data.

How do I become a PACT Champion?

  • When agreeing to become a participant for a PACT project, you will also be given the option to voluntarily become a PACT Champion for that PACT project.

  • And that’s all there is to it! You require no previous experience to become a PACT Champion and if you are eligible to join the PACT project you are also eligible to become a PACT Champion. All you need is enthusiasm and an interest in learning more about primary care research.

Support and certification

  • You will be supported in your role as a PACT Champion with online resources and guidance from the PACT project research team.

  • PACT Champions are also able to speak directly with the PACT project research team to ask for advice or ask questions via regular drop-in virtual meetings and email.

  • PACT Champions are encouraged to use our PACT educational resources to gain further skills in leadership, research, and quality improvement. What you choose to learn more about is completely up to you, and will be based on your own unique needs and plans for personal development.

  • At the end of the PACT project, PACT Champions will be given a certificate crediting them for their important role in this PACT project. As a PACT member and study participant, they will also be included as a co-author in any presentations and publications resulting from the study.

What will I be asked to do as a PACT Champion?

  • PACT Champions are encouraged to gain research experience during their PACT project in three main ways:

  • PACT Champions are encouraged to recruit colleagues in their practice, and more widely within their locality, to the PACT project they are a PACT Champion for. You will be supported in this with online guidance and advertising materials.

  • Depending on the methods of the PACT project, you may be asked to help answer any questions about data collection that other participants in your practice might have. It is not a problem if you do not know the answers! You can always bring any queries directly to the PACT project research team in regular drop-in virtual meetings and via email.

  • PACT Champions will be encouraged to lead internal discussions within their practice utilising their PACT practice report. This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience in presenting research data to colleagues and to initiate local quality improvement projects that might result from these discussions.