Courses and events

Online

Appraisal Made Easy

Join us for an afternoon of getting the most from your appraisal. We look at tips on how you should prepare, how appraisal has changed since covid, toolkits and much more. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions of the speaker who has been an appraisal lead for NHS England and NHS Improvement North West since 2008. This event is aimed at new GPs, however, all GPs welcome to attend this event.

• Date

  19 September 2025

• Start time

  13:00

• Places left

  89

Online

An introduction to speaking publicly or via the media for GPs

Giving you the power to say what you want to say and to say it well. This is the world of the soundbite, the app, the tweet, the word cloud. It’s a world of 24-hour rolling news... of vox pops, webcasts and video clips. In business today, you are expected to be able to communicate quickly and simply: » to hit the right note » to come across well » to create memory. Whether it’s talking via broadcast or narrowcast TV, on radio, to the press, or presenting to an audience – live or virtual – the right preparation gives you the power to say what you want to say and to say it well.

• Date

  24 September 2025

• Start time

  13:00

• Places left

  81

Welcome to your College | Induction event for new GP Registrars

The RCGP Faculties invite all new trainees who started their first year of GP training (ST1s) as of August 2025 to join and hear from RCGP Officers, National and local GP Registrar reps and discover your membership benefits.

• Date

  24 September 2025

• Start time

  15:00

• Places left

  410

GP Registrar Insights, come and discuss.....Portfolio Problems

Welcome to our peer-led educational programme for all GP registrars! We aim to create an informal space for registrars to come together once a month and share their questions, thoughts and worries about various topics related to GP training. Each session will have a theme, varying from exams to post-CCT preparations, with plenty of scope for future topics to be decided by you. Sessions will be facilitated mainly by other registrars with experience/an interest in the topic.

• Date

  30 September 2025

• Start time

  19:00

• Places left

  35

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

  29

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

  14

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

  15 October 2025

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  15

Online via Zoom

Managing paediatric respiratory tract infections– what is the evidence?

Primary care antibiotic prescribing in children aged 0-9 years has increased in recent years compared to the pre-COVID-19 pandemic, with 5.3 million prescriptions for children aged 0 – 14 years in 2022. Much of this prescribing will be driven by consultations for respiratory tract infections and the aim of this webinar is to support clinicians to manage consultations for RTIs in children and young people and consider appropriate strategies for clinical management. This is the first of two webinars on paediatric prescribing in primary care, with the second session focusing on applying guidance to scenarios in general practice.

• Date

  15 October 2025

• Start time

  18:30

• Places left

  1082

Online

Active Bystander Training

Witnessing verbal and physical abuse, discrimination, racism and micro-aggression effects everyone! Have you ever been in a situation where you want to challenge someone’s behaviour - but you didn’t know how to do it or what to say? This session has been developed to support ALL members of the Primary Care Team. It includes self-coaching techniques to help you keep a cool head when you’re faced with a challenging situation, and assertive language devices which you can use to make sure your voice is heard if you want to raise a concern. The session focuses on challenging inappropriate workplace behaviours from patients and colleagues and will give you the tools needed to be able to do this confidently.

• Date

  17 October 2025

• Start time

  13:00

• Places left

  39