Online Courses

12 months unlimited access to ALL Red Whale online learning – full and half day online courses, on a range of primary care topics, to watch live or on demand. Includes access to 900+ online articles on Red Whale Knowledge for further learning and to help you answer questions in consultations. Find out what's included with Red Whale Unlimited.

Get a whole year’s unlimited access to everything we do online (except the outtakes)!

You choose what suits your learning style, your schedule and your mood. We give you unlimited access to all Red Whale online live hosted and on demand courses - over 50 hours of filmed content – PLUS our library of 900+ written articles.

With Red Whale Unlimited, you can watch any (or all!) of our live-hosted online full or half-day courses on a range of primary care topics, and enjoy the added option of watching on demand. Our courses and content are updated all year round and you’ll have immediate access to any new courses we introduce during your 12 month subscription.

As well as courses to watch online, we’ll provide your new go-to resource to answer questions in consultations - on Red Whale Knowledge. Red Whale Knowledge is the home of 900+ continually updated written articles, plus ideas for QI & audit and tools to track your CPD. All the resources you need for learning online with us are included in your Red Whale Unlimited package. But if you’re a ‘scribble-notes-on-the-paper-book’ kind of learner, you can upgrade to include one (or more!) of our printed course handbooks, for a special discounted price of £40 per handbook (normal price of £80). Simply drop us a line and we will send you a discount code - mail@red-whale.co.uk

Next live-hosted online event Saturday 18th May! Live-hosted one-day update course: great teaching plus live interaction OR watch on demand whenever suits you. Choose to buy our GP Update course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

Learn the Red Whale way with a variety of different teaching styles to make it easier to remember the learning; genuinely practice-changing tools and tips and a year’s access to the course plus hundreds of articles and learning opportunities on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com)

Earn 6 CPD points for attending, a printed handbook sent by post, and 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource on Red Whale Knowledge. You will receive an email in due course with instructions on how to access Red Whale Knowledge.

GP Update topics - spring/summer 2024

We have an exciting update planned for you and we will cover the following topics across our Live hosted and on demand digital GP Update course in Spring/ Summer 2024:  

Cardiovascular 

• Lipids and statins: NEW NICE guidance, spotting familial hypercholesterolaemia and statin intolerance 
• Hypertension: what’s new? 
• Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: what do we need to know in primary care?  

 
Respiratory 

• Acute cough and pneumonia 
• Asthma: SIT/MART   
   

Diabetes and obesity 

• Pre-diabetes 
• GLP-1’s 
   

Cancer 

• Myeloma 
• Metastatic spinal cord compression 
• Colorectal cancer and FIT 
    

Child health 

• Otitis media with effusion 
    

Dermatology and allergy 

• Allergic rhinitis 
• Spot the rash! 
• Varicella PEP 
    

Neurology 

• Transient global amnesia 
• Transient loss of consciousness 
• Migraine 

Mental health 

• ADHD 
    

Women’s health 

• Adenomyosis 

Gastroenterology 

• Hepatitis C 

Available to watch live or on demand from Wed 12 June 2024! Do you want to know how to support your patient, population or even your own health using evidence-based lifestyle medicine? Then this comprehensive course is designed to empower you with the knowledge and skills required! Choose to buy our Lifestyle Medicine course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content.

Join the Red Whale team, led by Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi, the RCGP Lifestyle and Physical activity champion as we look to blend the latest medical insights with practical lifestyle strategies, ensuring a holistic approach to health.  

Who is the course for? 
Anyone working to support patients and populations with making health behaviour change is welcome on this course – specifically: 

GPs who are interested in practising differently or looking towards an extended role in lifestyle medicine (GPwER) as highlighted in the RCGP GP with an extended role in lifestyle medicine framework, this course provides you with the skills and confidence to practice. 

GP Nurses, ANPs, Pharmacists, Physiotherapists, Social Prescribers, Dieticians and Health Coaches 
 

What will we cover? 
In this full day live hosted digital course and its associated on demand and written resources we will cover: 

• Why is lifestyle medicine needed? 
• The scale of the problem  
• What is a modern developed lifestyle?  
• Why lifestyle medicine  
• The social determinants of health  

What do we need to know and do? 

We will cover the 6 pillars of lifestyle medicine: 

1. Nutrition 
2. Physical activity 
3. Sleep 
4. Minimizing harmful substances  
5. Mental wellbeing and stress 
6. Healthy relationships 

How can we put this into practice? 

We’ll look at some practical solutions to get what you have learned into action.

Putting lifestyle medicine into practice: 

• as an individual 
• as a practice  
• at network/cluster level 

National initiatives (e.g. Active practice and Parkrun practice) 

Group consultations 

Health coaching and behaviour change  

Starting a walk, jog or swim at your practice, network or cluster.  

Join us and like minded peers on this exciting new course and leave with invaluable tools to implement positive changes in your life and work. Elevate your understanding of wellness and learn how to encourage your patients to embrace a lifestyle that promotes longevity, vitality, and resilience. Help them (and yourself!) to not only exist, but thrive!

Next live event 15th November 2024! Watch our one-day update course online - live or on demand - and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge. Choose to buy the Urgent and On-the-day Primary Care course as a one off purchase, or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited and get 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbooks not included). Watch our teaser video here!

Urgent and On-The-Day Primary Care offers more than 6 hours teaching you can watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. Please note there is no printed handbook available this course.

This course is like a fast-paced, informative study session with friends for the whole primary care team – and we guarantee you’ll finish on time and there will be no extras.

We will cover 38 topics including:

• My child is ill: an approach to fever in kids
• My child has a cough: bronchiolitis, croup and viral wheeze
• I’m more breathless: acute asthma & COPD exacerbation 
• My ear hurts: otitis media and externa, sudden hearing loss
• My throat hurts: sore throat, quinsy and scarlet fever
• I’ve got back pain: Cauda equina syndrome and spinal cord compression
• It hurts to walk: limp in children, gout, cellulitis
• I’ve got belly ache: ectopic pregnancy, acute scrotal pain, pelvic inflammatory disease
• It hurts to pee: all things UTI!
• It’s my eyes: conjunctivitis, glaucoma and giant cell arthritis
• I've got a rash: chicken pox and shingles PEP

And to round it all off, an anaphylaxis and BLS update!

Next live hosted event Fri 3rd May, 2024! Choose to buy the Women's Health course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included). This course includes an update on contraception so therefore meets the CPD requirements for recertification of DFSRH and letters of competence. Watch our teaser video here!

Our one-day update course - great teaching meets plus live interaction! Join us live for polls & discussion with presenters Dr Helen Barnes and Dr Lucy Cox (FRSH trainer). The Women's Health course includes 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge - 900+ written resources to support your learning.

Get the best of both worlds: Tune in live and get safety, convenience and that all important a protected day away from the practice whilst earning your CPD with our live hosted online Together events. Like the flexibility of on demand too? We’ve got you covered - the course will be available to watch on demand at any time for 12 months from purchase. Women’s Health Together events combine the best of digital teaching around with live interactivity, and are packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. Just like our face-to-face courses, you’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get lots of helpful resources to keep the learning going. We'll post you a printed handbook and give you 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com).

• What's new in contraception - including an update on drug interactions, the ‘not quite here yet’ new progestogen only pill and the new guidance on interuterine contraception
• Sexual health: causes of vaginal discharge – what to do about bacterial vaginosis and trichomonas
• PID and acute pelvic pain
• Bleeding problems  – period problems in adolescents, bleeding on contraception
• Bleeding on HRT and endometrial cancer
• How to investigate amenorrhoea and what to do about PCOS
• Dyspareunia
• Miscarriage and infertility
• Menopause – including managing women with a history of breast cancer
• Pelvic floor dysfunction: incontinence and prolapse.  

Our one-day Mental Health course - now with live interaction! Join us live for polls & interaction with presenters, OR watch on demand whenever suits you. Choose to buy the Mental Health course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

Dealing with mental health in a short consultation window is really hard! Mental Health Update Together will give you a range of tools and skills you can use within a 10-minute consultation window, and to teach you how to adopt a structured approach to mental health appointments in every day practice. Get the best of both worlds with our Together online events: convenience & safety of online, with the excitement of live! Tune in live and get a protected day away from the practice whilst earning your CPD with our live hosted online Together events. Like the flexibility of on demand too? We’ve got you covered - the course will be available to watch on demand at any time for 12 months from purchase.

Mental Health Update Together events combine the best of digital teaching with live interactivity, and are packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. Just like our face-to-face courses, you’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get lots of helpful resources to keep learning the going. We'll post you a printed handbook and give you 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com).

What’s covered?

• The ‘mental health condition families’ - looking at them in a new way.
• How to navigate different diagnostic options - and more importantly, how to explain these with a narrative that helps patients to get better.
• Therapies and drug dilemmas: we'll cover everything from psychological and talking therapy, to drug-based treatments and self-care and promoting physical health.
• Creating new narratives: for a range of mental health disorders we consider how could we describe it to help patients understand their experience? How does someone with this condition think, feel and behave? For many patients, this is a key first step in management.
• Bread and butter conditions like depression and anxiety - focusing on practical skills we can use with patients, promoting self-care, great resources you can share and pitfalls to avoid.
• Strategies for common challenges like repeat attenders and personality disorder.
• ‘Microskills’ like behavioural activation, problem solving and self-compassion that you can start using with patients the next day!
• The ‘risky’ stuff: risk assessment, mental health ‘emergencies’ and the impact of addiction.
• Special groups including children and the perinatal period.
• Well-being of health professionals and how we can look after ourselves.  

Our one-day update course - now great teaching meets a live interaction event from our award-winning studio! Join us live for polls & interaction with presenters, OR watch on demand whenever suits you.  Choose to buy the MSK & Chronic Pain course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

Get the best of both worlds: Tune in live and get safety, convenience and that all important a protected day away from the practice whilst earning your CPD with our live hosted online Together events. Like the flexibility of on demand too? We’ve got you covered - the course will be available to watch on demand at any time for 12 months from purchase.

MSK & Chronic Pain Together events combine the best of digital teaching around with live interactivity, and are packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. Just like our face-to-face courses, you’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get lots of helpful resources to keep the learning going. We'll post you a printed handbook and give you 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com).

What’s covered?

Right now, it may feel like all our tools for managing pain are being thrown out at the same time as waiting lists are growing, this course aims to give you a whole new set of tools and revitalise your enjoyment of caring for patients with long term MSK conditions and chronic pain (yes really, we promise!). To do this we will:

• Share the science behind chronic pain and why it can only be in the brain.
• Explain how we can use this knowledge to reach a greater understanding and partnership with patients.
• Show you some skills to assess pain using a full range of biopsychosocial tools and how you can translate this assessment into supporting patients with self-care (yes, that’s right you don’t have to do all of this!).
• Build skills around promoting health behaviour change and patient activation. 
• Look at the nitty gritty of the “bad boy” drugs opiates and gabapentinoids and how, when and whether we should be deprescribing.
• Amongst other nuggets, cover the MSK big three: back pain, osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis to make sure you are bang up to date and have lots of ideas to take back to the practice.
• Give you a reference source in the handbook that covers all things MSK!

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge. 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and & watch at your own pace. Choose to buy our GP Update course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. GP Update NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway! Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months.

Learn the Red Whale way with: a variety of different teaching styles to make it easier to remember the learning; genuinely practice-changing tools and tips; a year’s access to the course plus hundreds of articles and learning opportunities on gpcpd.com. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending, and get 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource on Red Whale Knowledge. You'll receive an email in due course on how to access Red Whale Knowledge.

GP Update topics - spring/summer 2024

We have an exciting update planned for you and we will cover the following topics across our Live hosted and on demand digital GP Update course in Spring/ Summer 2024:  

Cardiovascular 

• Lipids and statins: NEW NICE guidance, spotting familial hypercholesterolaemia and statin intolerance 
• Hypertension: what’s new? 
• Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: what do we need to know in primary care?  

 
Respiratory 

• Acute cough and pneumonia 
• Asthma: SIT/MART   
   

Diabetes and obesity 

• Pre-diabetes 
• GLP-1’s 
   

Cancer 

• Myeloma 
• Metastatic spinal cord compression 
• Colorectal cancer and FIT 
    

Child health 

• Otitis media with effusion 
    

Dermatology and allergy 

• Allergic rhinitis 
• Spot the rash! 
• Varicella PEP 
    

Neurology 

• Transient global amnesia 
• Transient loss of consciousness 
• Migraine 

Mental health 

• ADHD 
    

Women’s health 

• Adenomyosis 

Gastroenterology 

• Hepatitis C 

Our one-day course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com). 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. Choose to buy the Women's Health course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

Women’s Health NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway!  Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. Women's Health NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning –with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. There are links in the console to all the Red Whale Knowledge articles you for further learning. 

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get lots of helpful resources to keep learning the going, including 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.  

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com). 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. Choose to buy the MSK & Chronic Pain course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

MSK & Chronic Pain NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway! Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. MSK & Chronic Pain NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. There are links in the console to all the Red Whale Knowledge articles for further learning.

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

What’s covered?

Right now, it may feel like all our tools for managing pain are being thrown out at the same time as waiting lists are growing, this course aims to give you a whole new set of tools and revitalise your enjoyment of caring for patients with long term MSK conditions and chronic pain (yes really, we promise!). To do this we will:

• Share the science behind chronic pain and why if can only be in the brain.
• Explain how we can use this knowledge to reach a greater understanding and partnership with patients.
• Show you some skills to assess pain using a full range of biopsychosocial tools and how you can translate this assessment into supporting patients with self-care (yes, that’s right you don’t have to do all of this!).
• Build skills around promoting health behaviour change and patient activation. 
• Look at the nitty gritty of the “bad boy” drugs opiates and gabapentinoids and how, when and whether we should be deprescribing.
• Amongst other nuggets, cover the MSK big three: back pain, osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis to make sure you are bang up to date and have lots of ideas to take back to the practice.
• Give you a reference source in the handbook that covers all things MSK!

Dealing with mental health in a short consultation window is really hard! This online course will give you the tools and techniques to make a real difference. Choose to buy the Mental Health course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

What's it all about?
This course has been designed to give you a range of tools and skills you can use within a 10-minute consultation window, and to teach you how to adopt a structured approach to mental health appointments in every day practice. 

Mental Health NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get their update straightaway! Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. Mental Health NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice.

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

This online course does not include a printed handbook. To purchase the Mental Health Online Course with a printed handbook, please click here

What's covered?

• The ‘mental health condition families’ - looking at them in a new way.
• How to navigate different diagnostic options - and more importantly, how to explain these with a narrative that helps patients to get better.
• Therapies and drug dilemmas: we'll cover everything from psychological and talking therapy, to drug-based treatments and self-care and promoting physical health.
• Creating new narratives: for a range of mental health disorders we consider how could we describe it to help patients understand their experience? How does someone with this condition think, feel and behave? For many patients, this is a key first step in management. Bread and butter conditions like depression and anxiety - focusing on practical skills we can use with patients, promoting self-care, great resources you can share and pitfalls to avoid.  
• Strategies for common challenges like repeat attenders and personality disorder.
• ‘Microskills’ like behavioural activation, problem solving and self-compassion that you can start using with patients the next day!
• The ‘risky’ stuff: risk assessment, mental health ‘emergencies’ and the impact of addiction. Special groups including children and the perinatal period.
• Well-being of health professionals and how we can look after ourselves.

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge. 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. Choose to buy the Cancer course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

Cancer Update NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway!

Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. Cancer NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. 

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

What’s covered:

The Cancer Update course offers comprehensive coverage of all the hot topics, contract changes and challenges of providing great cancer care:

• Early diagnosis: avoiding the pitfalls
• Key cancer microskills: safety-netting and discussing urgent referrals
• Vague symptoms and the role of rapid diagnostic centres
• The FIT test: who needs one? 
• Spotting cancer in blood tests
• Screening: increasing uptake and health inequalities
• Cancer genetics and the role of primary care in familial breast cancer
• Personalised care for people with cancer as a long-term condition
• New cancer treatments and why they matter in primary care. 

We illustrate this content with teaching on the most common cancers and those that are rarer and more difficult to spot. With more than 20 cancer specific nuggets to choose from, we have the bases covered.

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge. 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Choose to buy the Cancer course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included). Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. Cancer Update NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway!

Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. Cancer NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. 

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

What’s covered:

The Cancer Update course offers comprehensive coverage of all the hot topics, contract changes and challenges of providing great cancer care:

• Early diagnosis: avoiding the pitfalls
• Key cancer microskills: safety-netting and discussing urgent referrals
• Vague symptoms and the role of rapid diagnostic centres
• The FIT test: who needs one? 
• Spotting cancer in blood tests
• Screening: increasing uptake and health inequalities
• Cancer genetics and the role of primary care in familial breast cancer
• Personalised care for people with cancer as a long-term condition
• New cancer treatments and why they matter in primary care.

We illustrate this content with teaching on the most common cancers and those that are rarer and more difficult to spot. With more than 20 cancer specific nuggets to choose from, we have the bases covered.

Competent leadership and management skills are now crucial to survive the roller coaster of UK primary care. Watch our one-day course, taught in the context of daily challenges for primary care, to develop your skills! Choose to buy the Lead. Manage. Thrive! course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

The Red Whale Lead. Manage. Thrive! course takes a skills-based approach offering the tools you need to navigate change and find the best “new normal” for you, your team, your practice and in many cases, the wider PCN. The course includes 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge - our library of 900+ online written resources. We focus on looking after your best asset (that’s you by the way!), finding your way through chaos (hint: there is no perfect solution), developing your team and spotting when they are struggling, how to have difficult conversations, delegation, influencing without authority and much more. This is all contextualised in the current challenges we face. It is suitable for any primary care clinician who wants to find a better way of working.

Successful leadership and management skills are more vital than ever to survive the twists and turns of life in primary care. Develop your skills with our one-day course, designed for everyone in primary care. Choose to buy the Lead. Manage. Thrive! course as a one-off purchase or sign up to Red Whale Unlimited for 12 months access to ALL of our online content (printed handbook not included).

The Red Whale Lead. Manage. Thrive! course focuses on giving you the skills and tools which are essential to helping you work through change and achieve the optimum “new normal” for you & your team – and even the rest of your practice & PCN. The course includes 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge - our library of 900+ online written resources. We focus on how to bring out the best in you: helping you navigate through change and the unexpected, how to get the best out of your team and identify when they need support, how to tackle difficult conversations, strategies for delegating, influencing without authority and much more. We set this all in the context of real-life challenges we’re all facing every day in primary care. This course is designed for any primary care clinician looking for a better way of working.

This course does not include the Lead. Manage. Thrive! printed handbook. Please click here to purchase The Lead. Manage. Thrive! online course with printed handbook. 

Next live event Fri 6th September 2024 at 9.30am - 13.00pm! Join BMS Menopause Specialist Helen Barnes and the Red Whale Women's Health Update Course Director Lucy Cox for a comprehensive, holistic and evidence informed approach to supporting women through the menopause transition. Follow our course articles on Red Whale Knowledge.

We know this is an area that many clinicians find tricky and may want to refresh and update their knowledge. 

We will cover:

• Shared decision making around choices for managing menopausal symptoms with helpful practical tips for women.
• A pragmatic guide to prescribing HRT
• Alternatives to HRT
• Managing genitourinary symptoms and sexual problems including the role of testosterone
• Menopause in certain groups (e.g. women with a history of breast cancer, premature ovarian insufficiency, endometriosis.

Next live event Thurs 2nd May at 9.30am - 13.30pm! Calling all primary care clinicians who see children or young people as part of their role: this half-day course covers key topics on child and adolescent mental health in primary care.

We are all seeing and managing more mental health problems in children and adolescents than at any time before, yet many of us feel under-skilled and unsupported. 

In our half day course, we will cover:

• Assessing children and adolescents with mental health concerns
• Developing your skills in how to assess and support young people with self-harm
• How to talk about and assess suicide risk
• Building an understanding of how depression and anxiety should be managed in young people
• Spotting and referring eating disorders
• The impact of neurodiversity and adverse childhood experiences on mental health and wellbeing
• Some key microskills to support young people while they wait to be seen

Join Lee David for this 3-hour course to cover these key topics. If you join live, there will be plenty of opportunities for Q&A and to share your thoughts and comments. You will also take away a handy PDF handbook covering 26 key CAMHS topics.

Next live event 4th July 2024 at 9.30am - 13.00pm! A comprehensive and evidence informed approach to dealing with men's health issues in primary care. Everything from cancer to erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular and much more!

We will cover:

• Prostate and testicular Cancer
• BPH/LUTS
• Erectile dysfunction
• Testosterone deficiency
• Premature ejaculation
• Cardiovascular health
• Mental health: finding the missing men

Join Mike Horsfield and Ayo Ajanaku for this 3-hour course to cover these key topics, with a handy PDF handbook for reference. If you join live, there will be plenty of opportunities for Q&A and to share your thoughts and comments. 

This half-day course is a comprehensive, relevant and pragmatic update on contraception and female sexual health issues in primary care. Next live hosted event date tbc.

We will cover:

• Emergency contraception and quick-starting
• What’s new in the world of contraception
• Medical problems, drugs and contraceptive choices
• Vaginal discharge and infections
• ‘Bad sex’: dyspareunia and psychosexual issues.

A half day course covering the essentials that will make a difference to the care of people with Type 2 diabetes and boost our  confidence in supporting them. This course has been updated to reflect the changes in NICE guidance from 2022.

Does Type 2 diabetes seem more complicated and confusing than it used to be? We think so! 

• Overwhelmed by the baffling array of drugs and sometimes don’t know which way to go?
• Want to offer high impact lifestyle advice and encourage self-management but not completely sure how to do it in a way that actually makes a difference?
• Feel like you are juggling lipids, blood pressures, renal function, fatty liver and HbA1c and finding hard to see the wood from the trees?
• Not completely sure what the difference is between MODY and LADA (and half-wondering if they might be car models?).
• New diabetic lead for your practice or PCN, whether you are a nurse, GP or AHP?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions we are sure that the Type 2 Diabetes Demystified course is for you. A half-day focussing on the stuff that will really make a difference to people with type 2 diabetes fully updated to incorporate the NEW NICE Guidelines from 2022. We will cover everything assessing and managing risk, diagnosis, management and high impact lifestyle support, spotting emergencies and choosing drugs. 

The course will be available live on the date and on demand for 12 months after the date of purchase.

Please note that no printed handbook or access to GPCPD will be provided with this course. All the resources required to attend will be downloadable from the webinar platform.

In this half-day event on ‘Older people and frailty’, we will explore key concepts and skills which are crucial in supporting our older patients - both at home and in nursing home settings.

Using a combination of teaching strategies, live interactive cases, polls and discussion we will explore:

• What is normal ageing…and what isn’t?
• The terrible triplets: frailty, multimorbidity and polypharmacy
• How to do a really good medication review and feel good about deprescribing!
• The 3D’s of deterioration: delirium, depression and dementia
• Common primary care problems: falls, recurrent infections and requests for antibiotics.

And we will tie all this together with real-life case scenarios and tools you can use once you are back at the surgery, on home visits or out in nursing homes the next day.

The course will be available live on the date and on demand for 12 months after the date of purchase.

Annual BLS/AED training is mandatory in primary care. The fact that life threatening emergencies are rare makes a regular update extra important so that as individuals and teams we can feel confident to face them. This online course offers a level 2 update including paediatrics and can be used as individuals and practice teams. It offers all the taught content and scenarios you need to apply your knowledge and skills in practice. Whilst not essential, it will work best used alongside hands on practice with a mannequin.

What's covered?

• Using the DRsABCD approach with someone who appears collapsed.
• Basic Life Support algorithms as per the Resuscitation Council UK guidelines.
• Supporting breathing with rescue breaths.
• Use of the Automated external defibrillator (AED).
• Oxygen cylinders; connection and usage.
• Recovery position.
• Choking.
• Paediatric modifications.
• Pregnancy modifications.
• Compression only CPR.
• Electrocution.

Safeguarding is important and mandatory but often treated as a tick box exercise. We think it can and should be done better so just like on our courses - we focus on real cases and practical stuff which will actually help you in your daily practice.

This level 3 adult and child safeguarding is worth at least 2 CPD credits (and if you do it with your team and complete the reflective learning activities, it could be worth at least 4 CPD credits and count towards your participatory requirement).

There are two modules:

• Module 1: Neglect, self-neglect and capacity
• Module 2: Safeguarding in learning disability.

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com). 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months. 

GP Nurse Update NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway! Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time.

GP Nurse Update NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. There are links in the console to all the Red Whale Knowledge articles for further learning.

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

What's covered?

Lifestyle

• Smoking and e-cigarettes

Cardiovascular

• Hypertension: what's new?
• Familial hypercholesterolaemia
• Lipids and statins

Diabetes

• Prediabetes
• GLP-1s, obesity and type 2 diabetes management

Respiratory

• COPD: management
• COPD: acute exacerbation
• Single inhaler therapy (SIT) in asthma
• Asthma: acute exacerbation

Mental Health

• Birth trauma and PTSD
• Mental health and long-term conditions

Dermatology

• Eczema
• Scabies

Allergy and Immunology

• Allergic rhinitis

ENT and Oral Health

• Otitis externa
• Otitis media with effusion

Children and Young People

• Wheeze in preschool children

Contraception

• Progestogen-only pill
• Intrauterine systems
• Top tips for coil fits

Menopause

• What is menopause?
• Menopause: implications, definitions and diagnosis
• A guide to follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
• Counselling for HRT

Pregnancy

• Urinary tract infections in pregnancy

Interpreting Blood Results

• PSA testing

Gastroenterology

• Hepatitis C

Infectious Diseases and Travel

• Chickenpox and shingles: post-exposure prophylaxis in high-risk groups

Emergencies and Injuries

• Head injuries

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com). 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months.

Clinical Pharmacist Update NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway! Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. Clinical Pharmacist Update NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. There are links in the console to all the Red Whale Knowledge articles for further learning.

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

What's covered?

Lifestyle

• Smoking and e-cigarettes

Cardiovascular

• Hypertension: what's new?
• Familial hypercholesterolaemia
• Lipids and statins

Diabetes

• Prediabetes
• GLP-1s, obesity and type 2 diabetes management

Respiratory

• COPD: management
• COPD: acute exacerbation
• Single inhaler therapy (SIT) in asthma
• Asthma: acute exacerbation
• Carbon footprint reduction in respiratory care

Neurology

• Migraine
• Migraine: anti-CGRP drugs

Allergy and Immunology

• Allergic rhinitis

Chronic Pain

• Chronic pain: NICE guidelines
• Chronic pain: communication skills and self-management
• Chronic pain: opiates and deprescribing

Endocrinology

• Cushing's syndrome

Gastroenterology

• PPI deprescribing in adults
• Hepatitis C

Women’s Health

• Retinoids, contraception and acne
• Progestogen-only pill

Infectious Diseases and Travel

• Chickenpox and shingles: post-exposure prophylaxis in high-risk groups

Older People

• Multimorbidity, polypharmacy and frailty
• A practical approach to polypharmacy

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com). 6 hours teaching you can get started on straightaway and watch at your own pace. Pause, rewind and watch again for up to 12 months.

The Physician Associate Update NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway! Watch the course on-demand, anytime you like for up to 12 months. Our 6-hour course is fully chapterised so you can fit around your schedule, and do as little or as much as you like at a time. Physician Associate Update NOW is packed with engaging content that delivers learning – with varied, dynamic teaching to make the learning stick and help you get it into practice. There are links in the console to all the Red Whale Knowledge articles for further learning.

You’ll earn 6 CPD points for attending and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge (previously GPCPD.com) with 900+ written resources, including our downloadable ready written protocols, or GEMS as we like to call them, access to our online handbook and super fast search function – perfect for answering questions in or out of practice.

What's covered?

Cardiovascular

• Hypertension: what's new?
• Familial hypercholesterolaemia
• Lipids and statins
• Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Diabetes

• Prediabetes
• GLP-1s, obesity and type 2 diabetes management

Respiratory

• Acute cough and pneumonia
• Single inhaler therapy (SIT) in asthma
• Asthma: acute exacerbation

Neurology

• Migraine: anti-CGRP drugs
• Motor neurone disease (MND)
• Transient global amnesia
• Transient loss of consciousness

Mental Health

• Depression
• Antidepressants
• Serotonin syndrome

Dermatology

• Eczema
• Spot the rash quiz

Gastroenterology

• Hepatitis C

ENT

• Sore throat and tonsillitis
• Acute otitis media in children and young people
• Otitis media with effusion

Allergy and Immunology

• Allergic rhinitis

Child Health

• Short stature
• Wheeze in preschool children
• The limping child

Menopause

• What is menopause?
• Menopause: implications, definitions and diagnosis
• A guide to follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)
• Counselling for HRT

Women's Health

• Heavy menstrual bleeding in adolescents
• Investigation and management of vaginal discharge

Musculoskeletal Health

• Spinal cord compression and cauda equina

Cancer

• Myeloma

This programme includes access to foundation mental health modules (2h), the Mental Health online course (6h) and Child and Adolescent mental health (3h) plus Red Whale Knowledge access (previously GPCPD.com) for 12 months from purchase.

Foundation Mental Health Modules (2 hours)

1. Communication microskills
Great mental health care needs a solid foundation of excellent communication. And this includes communicating with ourselves! Learn more about mental health communication and some helpful microskills you can take back to practice right away. The video is broken down into chapters so you can tackle it in smaller
chunks, to suit your schedule.

2. Understanding Mental Health
Mental health plays a part in every area of primary care. Taking time to understand mental health is essential, and recognising how the whole team can contribute is key. We’ll discuss practical ways to assess mental health, and how we can use skills such as active listening and wellbeing strategies. We’ll also focus on common mental health problems, suicidal thoughts and severe mental illness.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Course (3 hours). We will cover:

• Assessing children and adolescents with mental health concerns
• Developing your skills in how to assess and support young people with self-harm
• How to talk about and assess suicide risk
• Building an understanding of how depression and anxiety should be managed in young people
• Spotting and referring eating disorders
• The impact of neurodiversity and adverse childhood experiences on mental health and wellbeing
• Some key microskills to support young people while they wait to be seen.

Mental Health Online Course (6 hours). We will cover:

• The ‘mental health condition families’ - looking at them in a new way.
• Navigating different diagnostic options and explaining these with a narrative that helps patients to get better.
• Therapies and drug dilemmas: everything from psychological and talking therapy, to drug-based treatments and self-care and promoting physical health.
• Creating new narratives: for a range of mental health disorders we consider the language we could use to help patients understand their experience?
• Depression and anxiety - focusing on practical skills we can use with patients, promoting self-care, great resources you can share, and pitfalls to avoid.
• Strategies for common challenges, like repeat attenders and personality disorder.
• ‘Microskills’ like behavioural activation, problem solving and self-compassion that you can start using with patients the next day!
• The ‘risky’ stuff: risk assessment, mental health ‘emergencies’ and the impact of addiction. Special groups including children and the perinatal period.
• Well-being of health professionals and how we can look after ourselves.