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The Faculty's first walk and social for 2021 and first face to face event since pandemic started. A five and a half mile circular walk starting at the Lychgate of St Giles Church Shipbourne, TN11 9PE. Park on The Common (Upper Green Road) opposite the church and the Chaser Inn is where we will finish for a pub lunch. The faculty will pay for the lunch and the event is open to members of the South East Thames Faculty and their families. A 09.45 am gathering time for the walk to start at 10.00 am.

Are you a GP working in or planning to work in urgent care? Join the innovative Dr Sharon Raymond for inside tips on entering and excelling in Urgent Care. This is a unique chance to get a summary of her experience in a bitesize format. She will describe the context including developments during the pandemic. She will summarise golden rules based on learning from serious incidents. There will also be space to discuss and ask questions.

Join Dr Edward Snelson and a range of expert speakers for a full day digital conference covering a variety of topics key to Child Health. We will equip you to better understand and manage conditions in primary care and to diagnose and treat common childhood illness. Along with appropriately managing more challenging or complex cases in children’s health.

An introduction to Bollywood dance to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month

The South London Faculty of RCGP would like to invite all GPs who may or may not be members of the College to a Workload Management & Problem Solving Talk with Dr Alexander Lai. Recent discussions with First5 members has elucidated the wide differences between how practices are run: timetables, expectations, on call duties, etc. So this will be an opportunity for Sessional GPs to have a better understanding of how different practices work across the area and be able to take back improvements on how to deal with various challenges. The aim will be to bring examples of work issues as well as discuss local initiatives and innovative solutions to combat the increasing demands on General Practice and improve your workplace.

In the first of the webinars in this two part series, we will summarise recent knowledge about persistent physical symptoms from a range of perspectives. We will demonstrate that these disorders need not be “medically unexplained” and to provide GPs with knowledge that is clinically relevant.

An e-Learning course on Atrial Fibrillation. The course is FREE to all primary healthcare professionals. Click the following link to access the course: http://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/course/edit.php?id=262

In this second part of the series will focus on applying the key skills learned in part one in your GP consultation. Looking at explaining persistent physical symptoms which cannot be fully explained by biomedical abnormalities are a core component of general practice. Health professionals commonly, refer to these as medically unexplained symptoms.

Join us for a virtual cook-a-long celebrating Bangladeshi cuisine as part of South Asian Heritage Month.

The evening will focus on quality assurance issues for the Cervical Screening Programme, Laboratory processes as well as colposcopy and management of the abnormal smear. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and participate in polls. Certificates of completion will be distributed to delegates as proof of CPD learning.

A Group Learning Matters e-Learning course on Adult and Child Safeguarding. The course is FREE to all primary healthcare professionals. Click the following link to access the course: https://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/course/view.php?id=334

Brought to you by the Beds and Herts Faculty, this open-to-all session will give a summary of good HRT prescribing practice for GPs, with case studies to illustrate common scenarios we see in our surgeries.

Join us for this FREE live 90-minute webinar focusing on if the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the use of diagnostic tests for gastrointestinal disease. This webinar will be interactive, with clinical experts discussing FIT testing, calprotectin, basic investigation of lower gastrointestinal symptoms - coeliac, FBC, ESR and proctoscopy.

This session is delivered by Dr Asma Khan who is a dual qualified GP and an Occupational Health Physician. She is extremely passionate about occupational wellbeing and stress management. As a GP in the city of London for 10 years and since 2013 as a full time occupational health physician, she has significant experience in advising on all aspects of mental well being of employees and specialises in stress management.

An introduction to Bollywood dance to celebrate South Asian Heritage Month

ST1s!! The Northern AiT committee are delighted to invite you to our event, GPST Ready. This FREE two-hour event is designed specifically for GPST1s, to help highlight ways to make the most of their training and minimise the stress of adapting to a new training program. The program has been put together by a group of ST1s, 2s, 3s and a newly qualified GP all working in the North of England and the sessions will be run by us too! The event has been created to help develop your skills and confidence in this exciting (but sometimes daunting!) next step in your career. We really hope to see you there!

Join RCGP Scotland for this training for all non clinical staff in GP Practices.

Join RCGP South East Scotland for a discussion on Renewing Inspiration; navigating challenges and embracing opportunities in General Practice.

Brought to you by the Beds and Herts Faculty, this open-to-all session will cover contraceptive choices for particular groups of women. We will look at guidance for women we regularly see in our surgeries.

Join RCGP Scotland and Wesleyan Financial Services for a webinar on NHS Pension Scheme

This eLearning screencast discusses the DeSTRESS project, which was set up to understand the challenges facing GPs who see patients with mental distress relating to poverty. The screencast explains some of the evidence linking poverty to poor mental health and discusses some of the difficulties that GPs may face when dealing with such patients. It then goes on to give some consultation tips that we can use and ways to make a small difference from one consultation to the next. Finally it reminds us that we are human too and that we need to look after ourselves in order to be able to help our patients.

*Postponed from 21st of July 2021* The North East London Faculty of RCGP would like to invite GPs who may or may not be members of the College to our reflective sessions on the surviving and thriving in the deep end (Living in pain: pain as the expression of social distress). Join us today.

The South London Faculty of RCGP would like to invite all GPs who may or may not be members of the College to 'an evening of inspiration and discussion for our souls' with Dion Johnson. She will be talking about 'Helping Women reclaim a sense of power, leadership, authority and confidence so you can Show Up, Speak Up & Shake things the Hell Up. Join us today for this exciting talk.

This one-day interactive course has been designed for those planning to take the RCA component of the MRCGP (ST2 and ST3). It will assist with your preparation for the MRCGP RCA examination, providing you with update RCA information, mandatory criteria, focusing on your consultation skills and how to select your recordings. You will also take part in simulated role plays which will be observed by current RCA examiners, who will provide you with feedback on your performance and offer assistance to enable to reach your maximum potential.