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‘Mindfulness’ is popping up everywhere, but what is it? Mindfulness is simply another word for awareness. Many people find practising mindfulness helps them manage their day to day well-being and improve their mental health. Date: 03 July 2020.

Join us for a lunch time webinar which will look at ways we can increase our mental and emotional resources so that we are better able to cope with what life has been throwing at us, including uncertainty and isolation.

Please join us this July to develop your knowledge of Cancer Associated Thrombosis. With key learning outcomes you really can not miss! This lecture is free for RCGP members and open to all GP's and nurses.

The Whiterose Region would like to invite all AiT's and First5's to join our FREE career development online webinar via ZOOM

Supporting our dying patients and bereaved relatives. Kathryn Mannix is a palliative medicine consultant and author of the bestselling book ’With the End in Mind’. During this webinar she will be focusing on those crucial conversations during COVID-19 pandemic including Advanced Care Planning and discussing death and dying. PLEASE NOTE: This event is on 09 July at 19:00.

This virtual event is designed to celebrate the completion of your training and help provide you with the information you need in taking the next steps in your career as a newly qualified GP.

Increasingly Narrative Medicine is part of the undergraduate medical humanities curriculum ,stories are essential to the art of practicing medicine. Narrative practice can enhance reflection on work. This session will incorporate "shared reading" ,a practice that can be recommended to patients, shown to have benefits for wellbeing and mental health. There will be an opportunity for creative writing and a safe space to share reflections. We will read extracts from the very funny book "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon as a prompt for thinking about the perception of the GP, anxiety and mental health ,stigma and family dynamics. It is not essential to have read the book beforehand although it would be even better if you had. (The author also wrote "The Curious Incident of The Dog In the Night-time").

In this webinar James will examine current inhaler prescribing patterns and why changing these in the UK is so important in our efforts to address climate change.

The session is ideal for anyone currently working through their MAP (Membership by Assessment) Portfolio. During the afternoon we will offer advice and support on how you can improve your submission, what tools are available to you, what you can and can’t include and if time allows we will look at how we can support you further through the process.

Looking after those who served in the United Kingdom’s armed forces is an important aspect of day to day general practice. This screencast introduces the current state of health of Britain’s 2.5 million military veterans and focuses on common aspects of veteran’s health, such as physical and emotional trauma and how all members of the primary care team can honour the military covenant by following appropriate referral patterns for ex-military personnel.

RCGP would like to invite you to join our FREE 'Unseen, unheard: Safeguarding children during COVID-19' webinar via ZOOM.

Learn more about the role of Vitamin D in bones and beyond. Within this session we have many learning objectives to support your clinical practice.

This half day event will discuss the common haematological issues that Health Care Professionals face in primary care on a regular basis with discussion on how to manage these, and when to refer to secondary care. These topics will be discussed using national and international guidance, and local policies but also useful tips from a Consultant haematologist. There will plenty of time for discussion, interaction will be encouraged, and the topics will be case-based.

This three part webinar-based version of our long standing AKT Preparation Course is designed to help GP Registrars prepare for RCGP AKT Examination, specifically to provide support for those taking the rescheduled August 2020 exam, at a time when we cannot run our very popular face to face courses.

This annual celebration which will take place at Bath Racecourse and is for all Severn Deanery GPST3/4s to mark successful completion of GP training with colleagues and supervisors and to celebrate the start of their GP careers. Our guest speaker this year is Dr Rachel Clarke who specialises in palliative medicine. The afternoon will be followed by an early evening celebratory BBQ. Educational and Clinical Supervisors, APDs, TPDs, Deanery and University colleagues are also warmly welcomed. All attendees are required book their place at this free event. Please ensure you include your role and ST status if applicable during the booking process.

In this session we will create Milagros and use the creative process as a prompt for reflection regarding our patients and our own experiences. It is recognised that small group discussions accompanying art and craft making have a unique quality and generate fresh insights.

This webinar explores the assessment and initial management possible in primary care, and illustrates the key role that primary care plays in supporting addicts on the roads to recovery.

The South London Faculty of RCGP would like to invite later career and retired GPs who may or may not be members of the College to a 4th virtual meeting which is part of a series of get-togethers for our local colleagues at this stage of their careers.

As part of our EASE series, the NE London Faculty will host a remote evening event on ‘Dermatology emergencies, top 5 lesions and getting started in teledermatology’. The event is aimed at First 5s and AiTs. The talk will cover important Dermatology emergencies, their recognition and initial management. It will highlight 5 of the most important skin lesions, and how they can be distinguished from their mimics. I

The Beds & Herts Faculty would like to invite you to join them for a meeting on 'Women's Health and Contraception'.

The South West Thames Faculty would like to invite all AiT's and First5's to join our FREE webinar on career opportunities and options for GP's. We will discuss traditional career options such as the locum, salaried and partnership model as well as other areas of interest such as working out of hours, developing a specialist interest. We will also have our local CEPN chair who will take time to discuss opportunities in fellowship and mentoring schemes that may be of interest to you. There will be a panel Q&A which will allow you to put forward your questions on how to make the right decisions and develop insight into the varied working life of GPs.

The Whiterose Region would like to invite all AiT's and First5's to join our FREE online webinar via ZOOM

Matt will use this webinar to examine the carbon hotspots in primary care and how we can improve patient care, reducing our damaging footprint while saving money. He will show some of the practical solutions which are already available - we just need to act and implement them in our daily practice."

This course provides an understanding of hepatitis C and its prevalence. It also gives an overview of the liver and its function, and the stages and natural history of untreated hepatitis C liver disease. This course is FREE to RCGP members and available for purchase by non-members.

The South West Thames Faculty of RCGP would like to invite all later career and retired GPs who may or may not be members of the College to a virtual meeting which is part of a series of planned get-togethers for our local colleagues at this stage of their careers.