- Half-day Webinars
- Deep Dives webinars
- Macmillan webinars
- Versus Arthritis webinars
- Surviving the New Normal
- PCN Support 1 year programme
A half-day event designed to be taken in an afternoon of protected learning time. These interactive webinars will give you a thorough immersion in the topic of choice and 3 CPD credits.
Watch our live-hosted event on the date advertised and/or on demand for 12 months afterwards. All the resources you will need to follow along will be available to download on the webinar platform, including a PDF of the collated articles for the topics covered.
Palliative and Supportive Care
A half-day course covering the essentials for delivering what we believe is one of the most rewarding parts of primary care, if not the whole of medicine.
Live date: 18.06.2021
Start time: 14:00 - 17.30
Price: £95.00
CPD points: 3
Info / BookAdd to basketA half-day course covering the essentials for delivering what we believe is one of the most rewarding parts of primary care, if not the whole of medicine.
We will cover:
- Identifying people who will benefit from supportive care: the pragmatic way.
- Different disease trajectories: challenges and opportunities for support and proactive planning.
- Tricky symptom management: including pain, nausea and vomiting, breathlessness and bone pain.
- Handling tricky conversations: Advance Care Planning, DNACPR and hydration and nutrition.
- Managing complex patients at home, and how to avoid escalation and admission.
- Palliative care emergencies and why this idea isn’t a misnomer.
- Hugs and hand holding? Post-COVID palliative care: discussion and some practical ideas about how we might find a new equilibrium for how we consult with our end-of-life care patients.
Older People and Frailty
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.
Live date: 25.06.2021
Start time: 14:00 - 17.30
Price: £95.00
CPD points: 3
Info / BookAdd to basketIn 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.
Add to basketThe Menopause Course
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.
Live date: 15.09.2021
Start time: 09:30 - 13:00
Price: £95.00
CPD points: 3
Info / BookAdd to basketJoin 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.
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Deep Dives
Our one-hour Deep Dives webinars tackle a wide range of tricky primary care topics, whilst giving you loads of practice-changing tips and useful resources! Get each Deep Dives webinar for an introductory price of £20 (normally £25), earn 1 CPD point for every webinar you watch and access them anytime for 12 months after you buy them.
Macmillan
In this series of FREE webinars, we team up with Macmillan Cancer Support and get to quiz several consultant oncologists to demystify some of the conundrums posed by cancer in primary care.
Versus Arthritis
Red Whale and Versus Arthritis have teamed up to offer you this series of FREE MSK webinars, to help build our skills and confidence in this area of primary care
VTS modules
These modules have been designed specifically to offer a blended approach to trainees. For each module there is a taught element and an opportunity for interaction through Q&As.
There will also be associated activities to complete including AKT style questions, a CSA style case to practice communication skills (written by our PD team) and a focussed learning activity.
The full 20 week programme is available at a subsidised price to whole VTS schemes. If you are a TPD, please get in touch with us at VTS@red-whale.co.uk
This programme will come to an end on 20th September 2021 and the modules will not be available to watch after this date.
Welcome to Wessex GP Educational Trust members! The trust has heavily subsidised access to The GP Update Online Course for you. As part of that arrangement, you can also buy a hard copy of the GP Update Handbook for an additional £40. Please choose from the two options below and use the discount code provided to you by WGPET. Please note, this arrangement is only open to WGPET members and by continuing with this purchase you authorise us to confirm your membership status with WGPET.
Surviving the ‘New Normal’
A series of modules designed to help you navigate the ‘new normal’.
We are living and working through unprecedented times in primary care. At this moment, the intersection of COVID-19, massive workforce redesign through working at scale, the PCN DES and ARRS scheme and a workforce widely acknowledged to be on the edge of burnout, presents enormous challenges.
To support individuals and teams emotionally and practically through this difficult time, we have developed a hybrid leadership, management and mental health programme.
Mental Health Update - Study Day Live for Wandsworth and Merton Training Hubs.
Red Whale is very pleased to be working with Wandsworth and Merton training hubs to deliver the online Mental Health Update - Study Day Live on Wednesday 2nd December 2020 to General practice Nurses working in Wandsworth & Merton.
This course is ONLY open to General Practice nurses working in Wandsworth and Merton.
Norfolk and Waveney Training hub and Health and Care Partnership are pleased to be working with Red Whale to bring you a series of three webinars designed to support pharmacists in the Norfolk and Waveney area with their prescribing priorities.
To purchase the modules please follow the instructions and use the redemption code you will have received from the Norfolk and Waveney admin email address: norfolkwaveneytraininghub@nhs.net.
Norfolk and Waveney Training hub and Health and Care Partnership are pleased to be working with Red Whale to bring you a live hosted webinar on Opiates Deprescribing designed to support pharmacists and GPs in the Norfolk and Waveney area.
To purchase the module please follow the instructions and use the redemption code you will have received from the Norfolk and Waveney admin email address: norfolkwaveneytraininghub@nhs.net.
Online courses On Demand
Get all the same great teaching and learning resources you would from a face to face course! Our online courses are chapterised for easy navigation, and available for 12 months after purchase. Watch them online anytime, in bite size chunks or all in one hit – it’s up to you!
A two-pronged online subscription package for AHPs Practice Nurses and Physician Associates:
- A rolling programme of Clinical education modules to support you in your professional development.
- A WHOLE team programme to support the multidisciplinary primary care team, as it evolves within the PCN contract and recovers from the impact of Covid.
This three year programme is available at a subsidised price to whole PCNs, training Hubs or CCGs. If you are interested to find out more, please get in touch at PCN@red-whale.co.uk
A two-pronged online subscription package for AHPs Practice Nurses and Physician Associates:
- A rolling programme of Clinical education modules to support you in your professional development.
- A WHOLE team programme to support the multidisciplinary primary care team, as it evolves within the PCN contract and recovers from the impact of Covid.
This one year renewable subscription programme is available at a subsidised price to whole PCNs, training Hubs or CCGs. If you are interested to find out more, please get in touch at PCN@red-whale.co.uk
Surrey Training Hub and Surrey Heartlands are pleased to be partnering with Red Whale to bring all ARRS staff in the Surrey Heartlands area access to a rolling programme of Clinical education modules to support your professional development and a programme to support the WHOLE multidisciplinary primary care team with change management education. To purchase the modules please follow the instructions and use the voucher code you will have received from your practice manager. For any booking issues or queries please email: inhousecourses@red-whale.co.uk.
