Webinars

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on GPCPD. 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 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 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 GPCPD articles you will need. 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, including downloadable GEMS and 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource at www.gpcpd.com.

Want to know more about the topics we are covering this season?

Here’s just a little of what you can look forward to! We will be covering all the latest guidelines and evidence. NICE have been busy despite COVID – we look at their guidance on VTE and PE, abdominal aortic aneurysms, hypertension, asthma and tinnitus. Early cancer diagnosis is a really hot topic and we take you through a pitfalls based approach with loads of resources to support you through the QOF QI module and the PCN DES. There’s a new GEMS on all things back pain including the “3Ns approach” and how STarT back can help you. A whistle-stop tour of important primary care bread and butter from impetigo to hearing loss and much much more. 

Our flagship one-day GP Nurse Update Course, without the commute! Watch it online anytime, in bite size chunks or all in one hit – it’s up to you. Our GP Nurse Update course was recorded in our award winning studio just before social distancing measures were introduced. 

Get the latest evidence on the most relevant areas for primary care to change your practice straightaway! As you’d expect, you’ll still get 6 CPD credits for watching the course online, plus you'll get GP Update Extra (an extra 6 hours of content and 6 additional CPD points), and a copy of the printed Handbook posted directly to you.

Download some really useful tools, like ready written protocols, trusted patient resources, quick reference flow-charts and our new GEMS (where we turn really complex topics into easy to follow flow charts) and of course, get 12 months FREE access to GPN-CPD.com - our online Handbook, in-consultation search engine and CPD tracker.

The activation code for 12 months of GPN-CPD access will be printed in the inside front cover of your handbook. 

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on GPCPD. 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. 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. GP 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 GPCPD articles you will need. 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, including downloadable GEMS and 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource at www.gpcpd.com.

What’s covered:

• Early diagnosis: A pitfalls based approach
• Promoting early diagnosis and screening through QoF and the new PCN contract
• Direct primary care testing
• Cancer Genetics
• Childhood Cancers
• Acute oncology and new cancer treatments: a primary care guide
• Cancer as a long term condition
• Supportive and palliative care.

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on GPCPD. 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. Women’s Health 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 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 GPCPD articles you will need. 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, including downloadable GEMS and 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource at www.gpcpd.com.

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.

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 Update 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 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. 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, including downloadable GEMS and 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource at www.gpcpd.com.

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

You will receive the activation code for 12 months of GPCPD access via email as soon as you place your order. Please check your spam folder.

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 GPCPD. 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. MSK & Chronic Pain 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. MSK & Chronic Pain 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 GPCPD articles you will need. 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, including downloadable GEMS and 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource at www.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 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!

NEW AUTUMN 20 COURSE AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER. VIEW DETAILS HERE. Watch our practice-changing one-day MSK & Chronic Pain Update course online. Get the latest evidence on condition management and strategies for supporting patients with chronic pain.

Everything you’d get from a one-day MSK & Chronic Pain Update Course, but you ditch the travel and watch it online - as little or as much in one go as you like! MSK conditions have the greatest impact on health of any medical condition in the UK after cardiovascular disease. So we created our MSK & Chronic Pain Course to make this vast and tricky area of primary care better for clinicians and patients alike.

As with a face to face course, you’ll also get 6 CPD credits for watching the course online. There’s also 12 months FREE access to the MSK & Chronic Pain resources on www.gpcpd.com. If you’ve not used it before it’s our online Handbook, in-consultation search engine and CPD tracker. You will receive the activation code for 12 months of GPCPD access via email as soon as you place your order. Please check your spam folder.

What we cover

We’ll look at why chronic pain can only be ‘in the brain’ and how we explain this to our patients and we’ll cover the big topics:

• Osteoarthritis
• Back pain
• Inflammatory arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Hypermobility and much more.

This course does not include a MSK & Chronic Pain printed handbook. Please click here to purchase the MSK & Chronic Pain Update Online Course with a printed handbook.

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!

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. 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.

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. 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. 

We all know that in general practice ANYTHING can come through the door! This is where ‘GP Update Extra’ comes in. On this course we bring you evidence based updates on topics which can throw is a curve ball in practice and are less commonly covered on our GP update courses.

We will cover the following current issues that present challenges in our day-to-day lives: 
•    Level 3 adult and child safeguarding training:
      o    2 hours of training which we guarantee is more enjoyable than an online learning module. 
      o    It includes the level 3 adult and child safeguarding, 
      o    Do it with your team and make use of the resources available to increase this to 4 hours and fulfil the participatory requirements.
•    An urgent care and minor injuries update : we cover some big topics to bring those stress levels down including head injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, heatstroke and burns.
•    Strategies to deal with those rogue blood test results that linger in our inbox: 
     o    Clinical update on hyponatraemia
     o    When is a raised bilirubin Gilbert’s syndrome?
•    How to get the most impact out of new roles in the primary care team.
•    New cancer treatments with BIG implications for primary care.
•    Ways to help patients embrace lifestyle advice. Yes really! We’ll share resources and communication strategies that really help. Plus we’ll look at motivational interviewing and the GRIN model.
 

You will receive the activation code for 12 months of GPCPD access via email as soon as you place your order. Please check your spam folder.

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.

This safeguarding training is included as part of The GP Update Extra Online Course. Please click here to find out more.

COVID-19 has lead primary care to do the most AMAZING pivot in how we work in the last few weeks. We are now triaging ALL patients by phone & consulting with many by phone or video, which is new for many & raises questions & concerns.

What we will cover:

• What’s different?
• Video vs telephone
• Minimising and managing risk
• Triage
• Safety-netting.

The webinar was first broadcast on 25th March 2020.

Do you feel muddled by men’s health? Perplexed by prostatitis? Bamboozled by testosterone bloods? We will tackle the issues of erectile dysfunction, the male menopause and much more!

What we will cover:

• We will focus on erectile dysfunction including important initial investigations
• The role of PSA testing in these men
• Treatment and drug interactions
• Testosterone deficiency – diagnosis, investigation and monitoring
• Quinolone prescribing following the NICE guidance on acute prostatitis released in 2018.

The webinar was first broadcast on 27th February 2020.

Do you find menorrhagia messy to manage? We’ll be looking which patients to investigate, which to refer, and which treatment to suggest and much more.

What we will cover:

• We will explore the different causes of abnormal bleeding
• Take a pragmatic look at the NICE guidelines on heavy menstrual bleeding, answering questions like:
  • Do I really need to do a pelvic examination?! (especially when I am running 30 minutes late and there is no chaperone!)
  • When should I request an ultrasound scan? (and when should I just refer to gynae?)
  • What should I do if she doesn’t want a Mirena? (or worse… it doesn’t work?).

The webinar was first broadcast on 4th March 2020.

All the best nuggets from 2019 all together in one place? That's right, our December webinar: 'The best of 2019' will do just that!

What we will cover:

• Lots of changes in how we should use antibiotics from sinusitis to bronchiectasis, pneumonia to COPD 
• HRT - the harms and benefits. We share our GEMS to make this topic easier.
• New guidance for monitoring safety in DMARDs and in testosterone therapy.
• How some simple maths could help our patients with prolapse and incontinence.
• Tips to reduce the number of abnormal inflammatory marker blood tests you have to deal with.
• Our ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE intervention to reduce falls.  

The webinar was first broadcast on 12th December 2019.

We reveal all on a common but complicated area of primary care - contraception.

What we cover:

• Run through of key updates in FSHR guidance.
• Considerations in groups with additional risk factors e.g. obesity.
• Pills, pills, pills: pill regimens, what's in all those different pills, "pill ladders" and LARCs. 

The webinar was first broadcast on 22th October 2019.

We discuss why diabetes should no longer mean a lifetime of polypharmacy and complications.

What we cover:

• What do diabetes, metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance really mean for our patients?
• Changing the way we talk to our diabetes patients, using results from the DIRECT trial and real case studies.
• Simple motivational interviewing skills to encourage lifestyle change within a 10-minute consultation.

The webinar was first broadcast on 10th September 2019.

Anxiety presents in a wide variety of ways. We unravel the mysteries of this easily missed condition. 

What we cover:

• The ‘Secret seven’ types of anxiety and how to spot them.
• Anxiety vs depression: how anxiety can be unmasked as depression and how treatment differs.
• Brief CBT skills to support our patients with anxiety.

The webinar was first broadcast on 18th July 2019.

We shed a little light on the menopause and the baffling array of HRT options.

What we cover:

• Diagnosing the menopause and when to use blood tests.
• HRT options - which to use, when and how?
• Panacea or poison – the balance of evidence for HRT.
• Explore real cases, get lots of practical tips and useful downloadable resources.

The webinar was first broadcast on 25th June 2019.

We explore this easily missed differential diagnosis for diarrhoea and abdominal pain. 

• We unravel new guidelines.
• Give you tips and tests to spot IBD.
• Give advice on dealing with patients having a flare.
• Discuss the long term impacts of IBD, screening and patient support.
• Talk through practical issues like contraception, vaccinations and stomas.

The webinar was first broadcast on 22th May 2019.

Join Dr David Plume and guests as they discuss the many issues, guidelines, studies and effects around prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in the UK with around 48,000 men a year diagnosed. It can cause premature death, but actually has quite low mortality rates even with advanced disease, unlike many of the cancers that we see.

It’s no surprise therefore that we see a lot of men who are either concerned about prostate cancer, are being treated or monitored with prostate cancer, or have had prostate cancer in the past and are now dealing with the consequences of treatment, and as we move to stratified follow up, and more low risk prostate cancer patients are followed up in the community rather than secondary care, we will see many more!

Join Cancer Course Director Dr David Plume in the Red Whale studio with co-host Dr Richard Simcock, Consultant Clinical Oncologist from Brighton and one of Macmillan’s Consultant Advisors, and our guest Dr Alison Birtle, Consultant Clinical Oncologist and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

What we will cover:

• Significant issues around the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer.
• The NICE Guidelines on prostate cancer.
• The STAMPEDE study and what this might mean for our patients.
• Late and long term effects from prostate cancer treatment.

The lung cancer landscape is changing. Screening (or case finding!) and immunotherapies are shifting the tides a little more in favour of patients and there are some important things we need to know in primary care.

Lung cancer historically is something we have seen as a death sentence. We have had a fairly nihilistic view of it and this has been understandable given only 5% are potentially curable at diagnosis. However, screening and novel therapies mean one-year survival is starting to creep up and a small sub-set of patients are living with lung cancer as a long term condition.

This webinar will cover:

• Lung cancer CT case finding (or screening!) is now a reality in many areas of the UK. Do you know how this works and what is means for you and your patients?


• Novel immunotherapies are an option for a small sub-group of patients with non-small cell lung cancer and can radically alter the prognosis. But, they have significant toxicities that can occur many months down the line and present to us in primary care – would you spot them and know what to do?


• How can we best support our patients with lung cancer: we offer some great resources.

Join our cancer course director, GP, David Plume and his guests in the Red Whale studio for the first in the second series of Red Whale cancer webinars in association with Macmillan Cancer Support to discuss this and much more. David will be joined by Dr Richard Simcock, ever-so-practical Consultant Clinical Oncologist from Brighton and Dr Tom Newsom-Davis, who is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Chelsea and Westminster specialising in thoracic malignancies and the vice chair of the British Thoracic Oncology Group Steering Committee. Between them, they should be able to answer all your questions!

The webinar was first broadcast on 19th November 2019.

The fifth commonest cause of cancer death, and the worst one-year survival rate of any cancer. Why?

What we cover:

• Why aren’t we seeing many of these patients earlier?
• What key symptoms should we be watching for?
• What investigations are useful in suspected pancreatic cancer?
• What are the treatment options?
• How do we handle ongoing management of these patients?

The webinar was first broadcast on 29th January 2019.

Early diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis has a massive impact on prognosis. There is a golden window when it can be potentially put in remission. In this webinar we look at how to spot it, the role of investigations in primary care and all aspects of management including an increasingly baffling array of DMARDs and the wider impact of inflammatory arthritis on health and wellbeing. 

Webinar will be available on demand from 23rd February. Polymyalgia rheumatica is predominantly diagnosed and managed in primary care, but how well are we doing at considering the diagnosis and managing the condition? Giant cell arteritis is a medical emergency and prompt identification can prevent sight loss. Both are managed with oral long-term steroids, a treatment which is not without risks of its own.  

Join us as we discuss the symptoms of PMR and GCA as well as when to refer. We also consider the iatrogenic risks of steroids and who needs a Steroid Emergency Card.

MSK presentations make up about 30% of primary care consultations. In this webinar, we consider how we can best assess common MSK presentations using remote consultations, how and when to adapt our examination techniques and how best to offer advice and support to promote self-management and keeping active. Join us to find out more.

Red Whale and Versus Arthritis are teaming up again to bring you a FREE webinar on “Supporting rheumatology patients during COVID-19”.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an anxious time for everyone, but perhaps particularly for our very high risk patients who have been asked to shield. There has been much confusion and challenge in accurately identifying these patients and the wider implications for their physical and mental health. In this webinar our MSK team is joined by Dr Danny Murphy and look at:
•    Risk stratification and shielding.
•    DMARD monitoring and what to do if a patient on a DMARD gets COVID-19.
•    Drug dilemmas: steroids, NSAIDs and bone protection.
•    Who still needs referral and how do we assess patients with a potentially new inflammatory arthritis…remotely!
•    Where can we signpost patients for trusted support and advice at this time?

Gout is the most common chronic inflammatory arthritis and data shows it is undertreated in primary care. It holds an odd status as a condition that many patients feel ‘embarrassed’ to have and that many of us smile as we discuss! Join us to find out more!

We'll cover:

• Diagnosis of gout.
• How we should talk about it and how Versus Arthritis can support our patients.
• How and when to start disease modifying treatments.
• Gout as a marker for metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk.
• The impact of lifestyle interventions.
• How we could adopt a different model of care making use of some of our ever growing multi-disciplinary team.

The webinar was first broadcast on 25th February 2020.

We discuss a radical new perspective on the neurolobiology of chronic pain and how this can revolutionise our practice.

What we cover:

• How chronic pain poses a major challenge in modern medicine.
• We share our understanding of the neurobiology of chronic pain.
• How this changes the support we give our chronic pain patients.
• Subject of much media attention: the downsides of opiates and pentinoids.
• New tips and strategies for managing chronic pain.

The webinar was first broadcast on 3rd December 2019.

We blow apart those myths around ‘wear and tear’ and discuss the holy grail of engaging patients in self-management.

What we cover:

• Diving into the pathophysiology of osteoarthritis.
• Using this to explain the condition to patients and promote self-care.
• What works… and what doesn’t?
• What is the role of drugs in this post-opiate era?
• How can we effectively promote exercise?
• Lots of great resources to signpost our patients to.

The webinar was first broadcast on 17th October 2019.

This 20 week programme includes modules on safeguarding, asthma, contraception, cancer: early diagnosis, thyroid disease and much more. Click on this link to find out more about each module.

• Safeguarding 1:neglect and self-neglect
• Safeguarding 2:learning disability
• Hypertension
• Asthma
• COPD
• Contraception
• HRT and menopause
• Anxiety
• Self-care for clinicians
• Men’s health
• Primary care emergencies 1
• Primary care emergencies 2
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Thyroid disease
• Cancer: early diagnosis
• Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes: beyond drugs
• Palliative Care
• Type 2 diabetes: glycaemic control and drugs
• Easily missed mental health conditions
• Assertiveness, negotiation and difficult conversations

This webinar programme consists of 6 webinars and 6 podcasts - each less than 1 hour long - will be released over 12 months. They can be watched by individuals or together as teams.

Each module will:
• Feature an important topical issue, with practical tools and a simple skill that can be implemented over the next month.
• Be supported by Red Whale written resources and a focused learning activity, to help translate the learning into a very simple action plan.

Who's it for?
Anyone working in the primary care team who needs:
• Permission to prioritise self-care.
• Tools to manage increasing uncertainty and the anxiety this can bring.

Teams who are welcoming new members or who are now working differently, and want to:
• Look out for each other.
• Decide what the ‘new normal’ should be for them.
• Develop healthily, through building trust and understanding.
• Learn how to disagree, conflict and still work well together at the end.
• Explore and evolve their team culture and look at issues around unconscious bias, diversity and racism.

Modules:

• Webinar - 28th October 2020 - Check in with yourself: emotions and how to deal with them 
• Podcast - 25th November 2020 - Managing stress and burnout
• Webinar - 16th December 2020 - Check in with your team: teams in change, teams in crisis
• Podcast - 27th January 2021 - Living with anxiety and uncertainty
• Webinar - 24th February 2021- Change: why it’s hard, and helping your team through
• Podcast - 31st March 2021 - Working well as a team and building a better workplace
• Webinar - 28th April 2021 - When teams go wrong: how to conflict well
• Podcast - 26th May 2021 - Deciding on your new normal: start with the WHY!
• Webinar - 24th June 2021 - How to work with new colleagues 
• Podcast - 28th July 2021 - Why clinicians get sick and what can we do about it? 
• Webinar - 25th August 2021 - Diversity, unconscious bias and racism
• Podcast - 28th September 2021 - Motivation: how to motivate yourself and your team