Webinars

Join us for a half-day extravaganza of all things menopause. We know this is an area that many clinicians find tricky and may want to refresh and update their knowledge.

So, join Helen Barnes and Lucy Cox on the Red Whale sofa for a comprehensive, holistic and evidence informed approach to supporting women through the menopause transition.

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.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions and for live interaction.

Join us for a half-day webinar focused squarely on how to improve earlier diagnosis of cancer, while also avoiding some of the common pitfalls which can trip you up along the way.

We're all GPs in clinical practice and only too aware of how difficult it is to spot cancers early when they present in primary care, so as well as being a practical half day, it will also be pragmatic!

Using specific cancer examples, we will take you through how to get better at spotting cancers in the context of:

• Recurrent infections
• Soft markers e.g. elevated platelets, microcytosis or weight loss etc
• Unusual age groups
• Vague symptoms

We'll also cover how to avoid being fooled by false negative tests, and how to make safety netting work better for you and your patient.

Plus, we'll talk about how to make NG12 (the updated NICE Guidelines on Cancer) more manageable and useful on a day-to-day basis - through the use of Decision Support Tools such as Q-Cancer, and the Risk Assessment Tool, as well as locally commissioned initiatives such as C-the signs.

In the context of regularly changing guidance around primary care direct access testing - both radiological and near patient - we'll help you to get a better handle on which tests are useful, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls that go along with them.

Early diagnosis has formed a key element of the PCN DES and QUIP QI in recent years. We expect that it will continue to be a source of focus for PCNs and practices going forwards, so we offer you a step-by-step guide to quality improvement, data gathering & analysis - as well as signposting to other resources to support your practice and PCN.   

Now also available on demand! A half day course covering all the essentials that will make a real difference to people with Type 2 diabetes and our confidence in supporting them.

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 when metformin doesn’t do the trick?
• 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. 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.

Also available to watch ON DEMAND! 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the second of 2 special webinars in association with Versus Arthritis we focus on what we can do in primary care and how we can work as a multiprofessional team to support people with chronic pain. This webinar is for everyone working with people with pain in primary care. We will consider:

• Why excellent communication is essential and how to change the conversation
• How to create a great shared understanding of chronic pain and why this helps
• Supporting people to self-manage
• A  wide menu of options to create personalised care plans

 
Join Dr Giles Hazan, Red Whale MSK presenter and GPwER in Chronic Pain and Dr Benjamin Ellis, Consultant Rheumatologist and Senior Clinical Policy Advisor for Versus Arthritis who sat on the NICE committee that wrote this guideline.

In the first of 2 special webinars in association with Versus Arthritis we focus on the new NICE guidelines on Chronic Pain and what they mean for us in primary care. We think this is a really important and exciting guideline that can help us to improve the quality of live for people with chronic pain of all types and enhance our enjoyment of these consultations (really!) In this webinar we will look at:

• The nuts and bolts of the guideline
• How to use it to support people with chronic pain
• Definitions and when they matter and when they don’t
• What are the management options open to us for chronic PRIMARY pain?

 
Join Dr Giles Hazan, Red Whale MSK presenter and GPwER in Chronic Pain and Dr Benjamin Ellis, Consultant Rheumatologist and Senior Clinical Policy Advisor for Versus Arthritis who sat on the NICE committee that wrote this guideline.

In MSK medicine, children are not just small adults and there are some important things we need to remember. In this webinar we will look at the presentations when we need to act and worry.

This will include:

• The limping child
• Acute joint pain
• Swollen joints 

Join our Red Whale MSK team and Dr Graeme Denman (GPwSI in paediatric rheumatology) and Dr Sharmila Jandial (Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist) on the Red Whale sofa to explore this important area and answer all your questions.

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.

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. 

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.

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 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 - Perfectionism, the chronic hero complex, imposter syndrome and other traits that hold us back  
• Webinar - 25th August 2021 - Diversity, unconscious bias and racism
• Podcast - 28th September 2021 - Motivation: how to motivate yourself and your team.

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.

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 at gpcpd.com.

This season, we’ll be covering a wide range of key primary care topics including: 

• Acute coronary syndrome: new NICE guidance on diagnosis and management, how “S.A.B.A” can help us remember the drugs we need to consider in secondary prevention and the important role of cardiac rehab. 
• Atrial fibrillation: we hope to bring you the new NICE guidance as soon as the draft is confirmed (we are sat on the edge of our seat holding the front page) and talk about the key management decisions - to anticoagulate or not to anticoagulate? (quick answer is yes for most - or rather, a shared decision incorporating risk scores - one of which may be new to you!). We will also tackle other important questions, like rate v rhythm control, which anticoagulant and much more.
• Gliflozins:  they’re everywhere – we look at the guidance and evidence for their role in heart failure (yes, you read that right!) and where they fit now in the management of type 2 diabetes, given the growing date on impact on important outcomes. 
• Types of diabetes: do you know your MODY from your LADA? Hint: they aren’t electric cars! We spill all. 
• FIT testing and why we are going to be doing a LOT of it: we’ll share a change in bowel habit GEMS, which pulls together the latest research, evidence and guidelines - when to do a FIT test (clue: nearly ALWAYS!), and how and when to use faecal calprotectin.
• Lung cancer screening and pulmonary nodules: what should we expect as this rolls out and (how) should we manage and communicate with people found to have lung nodules?
• Long-COVID: we explore what we know - and just as importantly what we don’t, and how we can best listen to and support people now. 
• Prescribing updates: including ensuring all patients on long-term steroids who have emergency cards, know the sick-day rules.  

All this and much, much more from funny turns in children; to anosmia, epididymo-orchitis and alopecia; and why how ‘familiar’ you are with your local farm animals may influence your prescribing decisions around antibiotics!

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. Clinical Pharmacist Update NOW is perfect for anyone wanting to get an update straightaway! 

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 at gpcpd.com.

This season, we will cover big updates in the management of long term conditions. Highlights include:

• Acute coronary syndrome: new NICE guidance on diagnosis and management, how “S.A.B.A” can help us remember the drugs we need to consider in secondary prevention. Hypertension: Why we need to remember the 3T’s , how to choose and uptitrate therapy.
• Atrial fibrillation (available from end May 2021): we will you the new NICE guidance and talk about the key management decisions - to anticoagulate or not to anticoagulate? (quick answer is yes for most - or rather, a shared decision incorporating risk scores - one of which may be new to you!). We will also tackle other important questions, like rate v rhythm control, which anticoagulant and much more.
• Respiratory disease: a round-up of the latest in COPD, asthma and venous thromboembolism.
• Diabetes: The gliflozins: they’re everywhere – we look at the guidance and evidence for their role in heart failure (yes, you read that right!) and where they fit now in the management of type 2 diabetes, given the growing date on impact on important outcomes. We also offer a framework for choosing drugs and consider the different types of diabetes: do you know your MODY from your LADA? Hint: they aren’t electric cars! We spill all.
• Early cancer diagnosis: how we can work together as a primary care team to spot those “missing” cancers as soon as possible.
• Interpreting results: FIT testing and why we are going to be doing a LOT of it: we’ll share a change in bowel habit GEMS, which pulls together the latest research, evidence and guidelines - when to do a FIT test (clue: nearly ALWAYS!), and how and when to use faecal calprotectin. We will also cover the nuts and bolts of thyroid disease.

All this and much more including some dermatology, steroid emergency cards, perinatal mental health and some tips on how we can look after ourselves during these tricky times.

Our one-day update course to watch online and follow the articles on GPN-CPD. 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.

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, get a printed handbook sent to you and get 12 months access to our online handbook and in-consultation reference resource at gpn-cpd.com.

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 GPN-CPD. 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.

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 at gpn-cpd.com.

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.

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!

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. 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. 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 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, plus a printed handbook will be posted directly to you.

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:

• 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.

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. 

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 programme includes several clinical and change management modules, plus supporting resources. It's an annual programme of 12 high-quality, engaging blended learning clinical modules, covering long-term conditions and the most common presentations in primary care. 5 core modules are available on demand from launch, and the remaining modules will be released on a monthly basis.

The Big Ask Live Lunch events: four times per year, we will host live events to answer your questions, hear your feedback and talk about topical issues - such as population health and challenges you are facing in your teams.

The New Normal: looking after ourselves and our teams, navigating change and COVID recovery. A series of alternating webinars and podcasts, focussing on key topics to support individuals and teams - practically and emotionally - through all the change required in the PCN DES, and in deciding our ‘new normal’ after COVID.

Access to www.GPCPD.com for the whole duration of your programme, offering support in EVERY consultation. The PCN subscription is renewable over a period of three years.

Find out the details of the modules on offer.

The first modules on the programme will be available to watch from 26th April 2021.