Connective Tissue Disease
Graham Davenport General Practitioner, Nantwich
0.5 Hours
This session will enable doctors to identify connective tissue diseases (CTDs) that are often seen in primary care, to distinguish between the main CTDs, to investigate, to monitor treatment and to support these patients.
Dental Health Promotion
Elizabeth O'Sullivan Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry
0.5 Hours
This session aims to enhance your knowledge and skills regarding oral health and factors that predispose to poor oral health. Promoting oral health in the infant and young child forms an integral part of this session.
Prenatal Diagnosis
Alison MacIsaac General Practitioner
0.25 Hours
This session explores key issues around pre-natal diagnosis in primary care. It discusses testing for Down syndrome, neural tube defects, cystic fibrosis, haemoglobinopathies and infections in pregnancy.
Diagnosis and Management of Gout
Samer Ghazawy GP, Hereford
0.5 Hours
This session covers the diagnosis and management of gout, and how to differentiate gout from other acute arthropathies, including septic arthritis. It also covers treatments for both acute and chronic gout.
Pain Management in Palliative Care
Chantal Simon
0.50 Hours
Pain control is the cornerstone of palliative care. This session aims to provide GPs with a strategy to provide good pain management for patients in palliative care situations. This session was reviewed by Neil Metcalfe and last updated on 19/02/13.
Principles of Palliative Care
Chantal Simon
0.5 Hours
Helping patients to die with dignity and with minimal distress is one of the fundamental aspects of medicine.
Postnatal Depression
Clare Etherington GP Trainer and Tutor
0.5 Hours
This session covers postnatal depression and is presented in the form of a clinical case.
Parental Relationships Part 2: Practical Methods of Assessment and Support
Jan Mitcheson
0.25 Hours
This session is designed to help you recognise and respond appropriately to relationship stress between parents. It provides you with some simple tools that will help you to explore with parents their understanding of what is happening in their relationship, and to look at what they might be able to do to strengthen their relati....
Paediatric ERGs and VEPs
Dorothy Thompson
0.5 Hours
This session covers how visual electrophysiology can be applied in young children and how combining ERG/VEP findings contributes to diagnosis and monitoring in paediatric ophthalmology clinics.
Ocular Masses and Tumours
Hatem Riad Atta FRCSEd, FRCOphth, DO
0.5 Hours
This session covers the detection and diagnosis of common ocular mass lesions.
Proptosis and Orbital Masses
Roxanna Gunny
1 Hours
This session describes common causes and most common malignant causes of proptosis in children, their typical clinical presentations and imaging features and which imaging features on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can help to distinguish them.
Communication Skills
Jude Chukwuma
0.5 Hours
This session covers the basic principles of good communication and examines some of the common communication errors that may arise during a doctor´s interaction with both patients and colleagues.
Safer Medicine Use Through Concordance
Wendy Clyne and Patricia Black and Alison Blenkinsopp
0.5 Hours
As many as half of all medicines prescribed are never taken by patients. This session will provide an understanding of the reasons for this and of how, in your prescribing consultations, you can achieve concordance.
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 3)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.5 Hours
The aim of this session is to promote rational use of antibiotics in optimising treatment of patients with infections and reducing emergence of antibiotic resistance. The risks of developing Clostridium difficile will be explained.
BNF Usage and Other Prescribing Information Sources
Sarah Morse
0.5 Hours
This session describes the British National Formulary (BNF) as a primary source of medicines information, highlighting key sections in the BNF and their application, and the formats of drug monographs. It also describes the limitations of the BNF as a source of medicines information and describes other sources of information ava....
Prudent Use of Antibiotics (Part 2)
Nick Cooley and Greg Scutt and Paul Wade
0.5 Hours
The aim of this session is to promote rational use of antibiotics in optimising treatment of patients with infections and reducing emergence of antibiotic resistance. Risks associated with antimicrobial use in patients who may have penicillin allergy will be explained.
Prevention Strategies
Wendi Murphy
0.5 Hours
Since some high-profile cases, agencies that deal with young people have an increased responsibility to work with each other to prevent substance misuse. This session outlines some of those responsibilities and suggests ways to identify young people at risk of substance misuse and put in place prevention strategies.
Adolescent Presenting with Intoxication
Katherine Teasdale
0.5 Hours
This session follows the case of a teenager presenting to hospital intoxicated. It develops with allegations of sexual assault. Concerns regarding risk of sexual exploitation emerge. Identification and management of the safeguarding issues are explored.
Physical Health Care for People With Severe Mental Illness
Jay Bowden
0.5 Hours
Patients with severe mental illness (SMI) have significantly worse health outcomes than in the general population, with life expectancy reduced by up to 20 years in this group. Cardiovascular and metabolic causes have been identified as being the key contributors to this excess mortality and morbidity. This session will explore....
Paediatric - wetting
June Rogers
0.5 Hours
This session will help practitioners become aware of bladder problems in children and young people, and to understand the implications continence problems can have on both the child and family as well as the wider community.
Safeguarding Children - Introduction to Special Educational Needs
Gabriel Whitlingum
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the different types of special educational needs and barriers to learning.
Safeguarding Children - Moving Up
Jane Wright
0.5 Hours
This session is aimed at a universal audience and will explore the transition from primary school to secondary school. It will discuss the factors that may impact on this transition and the role of services to support children with particular physical, developmental, emotional or social needs.
Paediatric - Headaches
Ishaq Abu-Arafeh
0.5 Hours
Headache is an important and common health problem for children that may lead to school absence and educational underachievement. This session will introduce the common causes of headache, their presentation and the treatment options. This session will also help in better understanding of the impact of headache on child's social....
Communication and Co-ordination of Care for the Complex Obstetric Patient
Charlotte Frise
0.5 Hours
An obstetric patient with acute or chronic medical complications often requires specialist input from a variety of specialties. This session describes the input from a range of specialties into some examples of acutely ill obstetric patients.
Causes of Anaemia Associated with Breathlessness
Ranjit Dasgupta
0.25 Hours
This session will look at the classification of anaemia based on red cell indices and the associated factors leading to breathlessness in an anaemic patient.