It is a virtual organisation comprising all academic departments in Scotland that have a significant research output in the primary care domain.
[2] It was formed in response to a report produced by the Scottish Forum for Academic General Practice.
[6] By 2007 there were 1700 people involved in this virtual organisation, including Scottish academics with an interest in primary care research and clinicians who have an involvement with research alongside their normal clinical work.
[7] A programme of work at the school led to the publication of landmark paper on multimorbidity in 2012.
[1] In June 2015, the Scottish Government announced a primary care fund which included £1.25 million toward the school.