Courses and events

Killerton Estate

Apple picking with the RCGP & National Trust - Devon

GP’s are invited to join the National Trust rangers at Killerton for a morning picking and pressing apples from one of the estate's historic orchards.

• Date

  07 October 2025

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  10

Zoom

The RCGP South-West 1-Day AKT Spex Preparation Course

This 1-Day AKT Spex Preparation Course offers more specific support around approaches to taking the AKT Exam. The course offers interactive sessions with experienced trainers and a previous DiT experience. Please note that this 1-Day AKT Spex Preparation Course is open to South-West Severn & Peninsula GP Registrars only.

• Date

  07 October 2025

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  27

Novotel Hotel, Leicester

Minor Surgery Skills | Entry level (includes DOPS) | Leicester

This two day beginners course is a mixture of theoretical and practical sessions and is intended for all GPs who wish to carry out Minor Surgery in their practices. It also includes the Direct Observations of Procedural Skills (DOPS) Assessment.

• Date

  07 October 2025

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  1

Zoom

Telephone consulting and triage skills

This online course will provide you with a real understanding of how to manage the risks involved in remote telephone consultations and the benefits this work can bring when practiced effectively. This day will give you tools and techniques to best handle remote telephone consultations.

• Date

  07 October 2025

• Start time

  09:15

• Places left

  10

Microsoft Teams

Care navigation at reception

Back by popular demand, RCGP Scotland welcome Dr Val McGarrell from Prima Linea Training to deliver another two-part training course for non-clinical staff on the frontline of the GP Practice. Open to practice staff, reception supervisors and practice managers from across Scotland, this training aims to support, encourage and upskill practice teams to deliver and grow non-clinical care navigation (the new term for signposting).

• Date

  07 October 2025

• Start time

  13:30

• Places left

  28

Effective out of hours training | part 3: laboratory results, palliative care and telephone triage

This four-part online course is aimed at GP Registrars who are new to out of hours and working towards their urgent and unscheduled care competencies.

• Date

  07 October 2025

• Start time

  18:00

• Places left

  34

Makeney Hall

Vale of Trent Faculty Celebratory Dinner and AGM 2025

The Faculty Provost, Dr Margaret Jones, Faculty Chair, Dr Gopi Singaravel, and members of the Faculty Board would like to invite you to the Faculty's Annual General Meeting at Makeney Hall in Derbyshire. A short AGM will take place before a celebratory formal dinner for our local members to enjoy. Our after-dinner speaker will be Professor Lucy Ambrose, who will talk about "Education: a vital force for sustainable general practice".

• Date

  07 October 2025

• Start time

  19:00

• Places left

  15

Zoom

The RCGP 1-day SCA Preparation Course

This open to all one-day training course aims to improve your consultation skills and as a result pass your SCA. The course offers interactive sessions with experienced trainers and examiners.

• Date

  08 October 2025

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  1

Padel4all

Padel and Pizza for Established GPs

Padel is a form of tennis that's rapidly growing across Europe. We have organised a chance for Established GPs (5 years post CCT) to try Padel, meet up with other GPs from the area and enjoy a pizza afterwards and will take place at Padel4al, Bristol. This event is free for RCGP Members with a refundable deposit of £15.00.

• Date

  08 October 2025

• Start time

  19:00

• Places left

  7