How Scan4Safety helps to support patient safety
Rob Drag & Lorna Wilkinson
Rob Drag, Scan4Safety Programme Manager and Lorna Wilkinson, Director of Nursing will share the Salisbury Hospital's journey (UK) with GS1 standards.
Hypothermia in the Elderly: Causes and Multifactorial Nature
Claire Dow
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the definition and causes of non exposure hypothermia in older people, how to treat it and how to prevent it.
Investigation Management and Treatment of Mitral Stenosis
Ceri Davies
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the investigation of mitral stenosis and its subsequent management.
Holistic Approach
Marion Lynch
0.5 Hours
This session introduces the Holistic Approach domain of the RCGP curriculum. It explores patients and GP perceptions of holism and how these influence the presentation of problems, communication, diagnoses and the sharing of management planning. This session was reviewed by Suchita Shah and last updated in October 2014.
Fever and Febrile Convulsions
Anisio Veloso Melo Junior
0.5 Hours
This session explains how to assess a child with fever using the "traffic light"™ system. It discusses febrile seizures, their features and management, advice to parents and indications for hospital referral. This session was reviewed by Jenny Bedford and last updated in September 2014.
Hearing Difficulties in Primary Care
Ewa Raglan
0.5 Hours
This session will describe how to best take care of adult patients presenting with hearing difficulties, as well as how to assess and manage those who require referral to first and second levels of audiology care.
Early Pregnancy Loss
Nilesh Agarwal
0.5 Hours
This session covers the assessment and management of women who present with vaginal bleeding and pelvic pain in early pregnancy and is illustrated through three separate cases.
Introduction to Adolescent Health And Illness
Russel Viner
0.5 Hours
This session introduces learners to key concepts in young people´s health.
Normal Changes of Ageing
Manminder Sandhu
0.5 Hours
Ageing is a gradual series of changes over time that leads to the loss of function of organs and cells, with the eventual outcome of death. This is a natural process and not a medical condition to be treated. This session looks at the normal changes of ageing.
Examination of a 30-Year-Old with Anterior Knee Pain
Peter Godfrey
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to carry out a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting with knee pain in primary care.
Eating Disorders In Young People
Dasha Nicholls Consultant Child and Adolescent Psyschiatrist
0.5 Hours
This session gives an overview of the nature, aetiology and risk factors linked to eating disorders. Also covered are the diagnostic elements that allow us to distinguish between eating disorders and other conditions affecting the eating behaviour of young people. This session was reviewed by Hilda Mulrooney, Louise Lam and Lisa....
Elbow Pain
Satpal Shekhawat
0.5 Hours
This session provides essential information on the common causes of pain in the elbow, their associated diagnoses and recommended treatment, as well as an overview of elbow anatomy.
Healthy Eating for Toddlers: 1- 4 years
Catherine Elwig Clinical Lead Paediatric Dietetics, Imperial College London
0.5 Hours
This session describes ways of identifying what constitutes healthy eating to satisfy unique toddler requirements. In addition, the session also examines toddler behaviours such as fussy eating and food neophobia and the impact these behaviours can have on nutritional intake. This session was reviewed by Elaine Tabony and update....
Human Factors and Patient Safety in Primary Care
Jane Carthey Patient Safety and Human Factors Specialist and Christine Johnson General Practitione
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the field of human factors, including the human factors challenges in primary care. It also provides explanation of why improving patient safety requires us to consider human factors when designing healthcare systems. This session was reviewed by Louise Newson and last updated in November 201....
Health Promotion in Pregnancy: Obesity
Eugene Ntim Consultant Obstetrician
0.5 Hours
This session aims to raise awareness regarding obesity in pregnancy and its contribution to increased morbidity and mortality for the woman and her baby.This session was reviewed by Amanda Avery and updated in February 2017.
Foot Pain
Adrian Dunbar Associate Postgraduate Dean in General Practice Education for the Yorkshire and Humbe
0.25 Hours
Foot pain is a common presentation in primary care. This session considers patients presenting with heel, midfoot and forefoot pain and follows their presentation, assessment and management.
Examination of a 40-Year-Old Woman with Symptoms of an Overactive Thyroid
Gill North GP, Sheffield
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to perform a focused, problem-based physical examination on an adult presenting with possible symptoms of an overactive thyroid in primary care.
Emotional Development
Barbara Maughan
0.5 Hours
This session looks at the process of emotional development with a description of the basic emotions, when they first appear, and what they mean. We will look at how infants learn to discriminate between emotions and develop secondary emotions. We will describe the importance of parenting in emotional development. We will look at....
Intervening to Reduce Risk Promoting STI Testing
Philippa Matthews
0.5 Hours
This is the third of four complementary sessions on behavioural and clinical interventions to reduce the risk of patients having, or developing in the future, sexual health problems. The three patients in this session have a range of needs, however all of them might benefit from having an STI or HIV test. We also consider the is....
Examination of a 60-Year-Old Smoker With Shortness of Breath
Simon Ward - General Practitioner North Nottinghamshire
0.5 Hours
This session uses a video clip to demonstrate how to carry out a focused, problem-based physical examination on a patient presenting in primary care with worsening breathlessness.
Eye Assessment and Examination
Stella Hornby and Caroline Mawer
0.5 Hours
This session will help you to conduct a quick, general examination of the eyes of an adult in a primary care context. This session was reviewed by Sally Higginbottom and last updated in February 2015.
Feeding Children with Development Difficulties
John Puntis - Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Leeds General Infirmary
0.5 Hours
This session explores the difficulty children with neurological disabilities commonly encounter with feeding, together with associated problems that can result in growth failure and malnutrition-related multi-system complications. It covers assessment and management, which often involves a range of professionals including a diet....
Neutropenic Sepsis and Sepsis in Maternity -Complex Safety Issues and Future Development
Simon Stockley and James Larcombe and Alison Tavare
0.5 Hours
This session is aimed at all out of hospital clinicians, GPs, Nurses, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Community Midwives and those providing urgent or unscheduled care. It will explore neutropenic sepsis and sepsis in maternity, potential opportunities for prevention and some of the recent changes and innovation relevant to sepsis.
Hypothalamic and Pituitary Function
Simon Fletcher
0.5 Hours
This session provides an overview of the interaction between the hypothalamus and both parts of the pituitary gland. A description of the relevant hormones and their actions is also included.
Indications and Evidence for Proton Beam Therapy
Roger Taylor
0.75 Hours
This session aims to present the clinical rationale for proton beam therapy (PBT), and the evidence for treatment of different types of cancer.