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ECG teaching for Primary Care.

The purpose of this virtual two-hour session is to give people the opportunity to reflect on and review their plans for retirement in a safe and supportive environment. There will be opportunities for sharing experience and reflections. Models will be demonstrated offering ways to structure your thinking in preparation for life after work.

Dr Sioned Enlli and Dr Tom Kneale will be hosting a virtual chese and wine catch up with RCGP North Wales Faculty members.

Please note: Despite the message indicating that this talk is full, it is not and so, please feel free to register your place! The North East London; South West Thames and Essex Faculties, in partnership with Versus Arthritis, would like to invite all local GPs to attend our collaboration talk about differences between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Fibromyalgia. Differentiating one from the other is a difficult skill in a primary care setting, with huge implications for the patient and NHS.

This is an ideal opportunity to join two leading Ophthalmic Surgeons to gain further understanding of how to triage and manage common eye problems within the primary care setting and an overview of cataract surgery, including new developments to help GPs to better understand optician referrals and how best to refer patients minimising unnecessary referrals.

The North East London Faculty of RCGP would like to invite GPs who may or may not be members of the College to our second reflection session on the surviving and thriving in the deep end (Access and candidacy: literacy & digital exclusion). Join us today.

For this evening webinar, we will be joined by Dr Narasimha Murthy, a Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrine, who will look at diabetes treatment, new evidence of newer drugs and general endocrine practice tips.

Join us for this FREE live webinar which will focus on protecting doctors' wellbeing during these challenging times. Expert speakers will provide tips on how to recognise the early signs of burnout and mental ill health in the workplace. There will also be an opportunity to learn how to create your own psychological PPE toolkit to help protect you during and post pandemic.

The SW Thames Faculty are pleased to announce our new upcoming series of 4 sessions focused on your wellbeing through Pilates classes hosted by our education lead Dr Sam Samaratunga who will introduce our Pilates instructor - Sharon Ayre. There are limited spaces, so book your space today!

Interested in the benefits of Balint? Discover how a Balint group might boost your enthusiasm, top up your empathy and refresh your practice.

RCGP would like to invite you to join our FREE webinar 'PCD Showcase: How the RCGP can support practices and PCNs to thrive in 2021' via ZOOM.

It is always important for us to take the time to look after ourselves physically and mentally, but it is even more paramount at times like these. Yoga is a simple practice where we focus on physical and mental stillness to reduce stress and increase flexibility and should help you unwind. Join us and allow our experienced Yoga teacher, Roessa Marks to guide you through a yoga class designed specifically with GPs in mind. There will be options to suit both absolute beginners and those who have been practicing longer. The class will start with a brief introduction to yoga with an emphasis on benefits to health and wellbeing. The class with be a multi-level 60 minute class - all levels are welcome!

With the recent rise of remote consultations we have created a programme that will cover most of the challenging neurological presentations to us GPs. The programme will include tips on how to recognise and to manage them remotely, including when and where to refer.

This is a recording of a live webinar that took place on 22 July 2020. This recording will be available to view until 22 January 2021. GPs are now practising in unprecedented times - mostly remotely, and with limited resources. It is however very important to continue providing effective and safe practice from primary care and to ensure that our patients continue to receive the care they need. We will discuss cases and explore treatment solutions, including giving advice, when to continue monitoring, when to refer for further tests, and how to manage on an ongoing basis

This 1.5 hour webinar will explore providing advance care, managing the complex health issues on an ongoing basis and improving treatment solutions.

A three day remote clinical skills assessment course in preparation for the RCA examination via Zoom

This interactive session will allow you to take the first steps into working out what you really want from your career and how to make it a reality.

Join us for this Level 3 adult and child safeguarding course. Led by Dr Joy Shacklock this full-day course focuses on a practical approach to safeguarding as a GP, taking into account the uniqueness and complexity of general practice. The course covers adult and child safeguarding and is Level 3.

For this evening webinar, we will be joined by Dr Zahra Syed, Oral medicine NHS Consultant at The Royal London Hospital, to discuss common oral cases seen in general practice and how they can be managed in primary care.

We would like to invite you to join our Webinar Problems in Practice. General Practice faces unprecedented challenges and pressures. In these times we need to ensure good practice is the center of what we do. This inter-active training module offers reflection and learning on three keys areas in a practice. Duty of Candour, Freedom to speak up and Serious/Critical Incidents.

The SW Thames Faculty are pleased to announce our new upcoming series of 4 sessions focused on your wellbeing through Pilates classes hosted by our education lead Dr Sam Samaratunga who will introduce our Pilates instructor - Sharon Ayre. There are limited spaces, so book your space today!

Join us for this FREE webinar held by Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO). The webinar will explore challenges experienced at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, ways in which health services adapted at speed to manage increasing demands and the epidemiological and global public health lessons learnt during the pandemic.

It is always important for us to take the time to look after ourselves physically and mentally, but it is even more paramount at times like these. Yoga is a simple practice where we focus on physical and mental stillness to reduce stress and increase flexibility and should help you unwind. Join us and allow our experienced Yoga teacher, Roessa Marks to guide you through a yoga class designed specifically with GPs in mind. There will be options to suit both absolute beginners and those who have been practicing longer. The class will start with a brief introduction to yoga with an emphasis on benefits to health and wellbeing. The class with be a multi-level 60 minute class - all levels are welcome!

This course looks at the problem of dependence on medicines both prescribed and over-the-counter. The concept of dependence is explored along with information on how it might develop who is at increased risk and how you might recognise it. There is a focus on the particular dependence-forming medicines that might be encountered in primary care and information is provided on good prescribing practice. Management strategies are discussed noting that dependence usually develops slowly and so there are several opportunities to intervene.