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Description: Attempts to reduce inequalities in health and healthcare in England have been met with little success. For initiatives to reduce inequalities is it essential that the most vulnerable groups in society can be identified. Intersectionality theory can provide a framework to assess inequalities via the exploration of how structural forms of social marginalisation intersect to generate inequalities. In this paper, we outline our scoping review protocol to comprehensively search applications of intersectionality in the primary care inequalities literature. Our scoping review will be guided by Arksey & O’Malley’s scoping review methodology framework. We will search electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE, ECONLIT, PsycArticles, Social Policy and Practice, and Scopus (all but the latter via Ovidsp). We will use OpenGrey to search the grey literature. From the included studies we will perform a forward and back citation search. All authors will independently screen studies. We will include any study that uses data within a primary care setting and applies intersectionality theory.