Abstract
Across healthcare systems in all parts of the world, academics are concerned with teaching students both undergraduate and postgraduate, and with undertaking research that will inform the development of service delivery and interventions within that healthcare system. The need to focus on this 'second translational gap' (between research and healthcare delivery) was of course highlighted as a key part of the future research agenda for primary care long before the White Paper was published (Academy of Medical Sciences, 2009) and is reflected in many of the papers published in this journal that go far beyond the model of a disease focus for primary care.