One Day Essentials conferences

Designed for GPs - the College delivers over 20 One Day Essentials (ODE) annually, providing over 120 hours of free CPD per year.

These live, full-day, online conferences are free and available exclusively to RCGP members to attend. They provide clinical updates, practical tips, and take-home messages that will improve your daily practice and, ultimately, patient outcomes.

The conferences cover a range of topics from the GP curriculum including adolescent health, cardiology, gastroenterology, women’s health, mental health, neurodevelopmental health, pain management, sexual health, learning disabilities - and more.

One Day Essentials REWIND

Check your diary, register to attend, or if you can't make it, access the content afterwards on REWIND. The REWIND is available to all GPs. You can catch up on all the recordings and presentation slides for up to nine months after each event - you can register at any point during this time.

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Neurology | One Day Essentials

Common challenging neurological presentations such as migraine, dizziness and others will come up in primary care on a regular basis, and GPs need to be equipped to recognise and manage them with confidence. This conference will provide practical tips and guidance to help improve patient care in a broad range of neurological areas.

  • Date

    20 February 2026

  • Start time

    09:00

  • Places left

    2228

Women's health | One Day Essentials

Dr Toni Hazell and a group of leading speakers will focus on essential information, latest evidence, practical tips and take-home messages to help improve practice and patient outcomes. The primary care perspective will be foremost in all of the talks, with consideration of the real-life decisions that we make every day whilst working in an under-resourced system.

  • Date

    17 March 2026

  • Start time

    09:30

  • Places left

    2473

Respiratory health | One Day Essentials

Join Dr. Steve Holmes for a comprehensive one-day online conference. Explore the latest advancements and guidance in respiratory.

  • Date

    24 March 2026

  • Start time

    09:30

  • Places left

    2915

Lifestyle medicine | One Day Essentials

Building on the success of last years One Day Essentials Lifestyle medicine conference, we will discuss evidence based behavioural techniques to support patients with root causes of ill health; including poor mental wellbeing, social and economic indicators, obesity and gut microbiome, inactivity and poor sleep.

  • Date

    23 April 2026

  • Start time

    09:30

  • Places left

    3643

Learning disabilities | One Day Essentials

Join us for a One Day Essentials conference on the medical needs of our patients with a learning disability. The national learning disability mortality review programme learning from lives and deaths LeDeR has shone a light on the huge health inequalities experienced by this population.

  • Date

    28 April 2026

  • Start time

    09:00

  • Places left

    3769