Hot Topics Course Preview, Spring 2025

The Hot Topics GP Update course is a fun and enjoyable way to stay up to date with the latest evidence and guidelines for professionals working in front-line General Practice. If you’re in a patient-facing role in primary care and want to practise up to date evidence-based medicine, this course is designed for you! 

We keep our presentations interactive, short and punchy and bring the evidence to life by blending it with real life cases. The course is filled with takeaway learning points and quality improvement ideas that you can put into practice immediately. It comes with a detailed, fully referenced course book in paper and digital formats that you can refer to throughout the following year so that you are confident that you have the latest information at your fingertips.

To fit in with your busy life and preferred learning style, you have the flexibility to join our live, fully interactive course or to do it on demand in chunks and at your own pace. All the Hot Topics we present shall be new compared to a year ago and will include:

• Cardiovascular medicine
  • Atrial fibrillation: we look at recent papers and new guidelines on the growing burden of AF and its consequences, and why we need to think beyond just anticoagulation
  • Hypertension: important updates from 2024 UK and European guidelines, should we be starting more patients on dual therapy from the outset?
  • Secondary prevention of CHD:  significant changes to practice, are beta-blockers and dual antiplatelets still needed after acute coronary syndrome?
• Women’s Health
  • We look at major new 2024 NICE guidelines on management of the menopause, new guidance from the BMS on unscheduled bleeding and the role of fezolinetant for vasomotor symptoms
• Diabetes, metabolism and obesity
  • Is remission of type 2 diabetes a target worth striving for?
  • Tirzepatide: the latest evidence and NHS guidelines and the implications for delivering this treatment in primary care
• Respiratory
  • We look at the new 2024 BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guidance with important changes to both diagnosis and management
• Clinical genetics for primary care
  • With increasing awareness of the importance of clinical genetics in primary care we look at BRCA testing, Lynch syndrome and hereditary haemochromatosis - when should we suspect these conditions and refer or test?
• MSK
  • We look at new guidance on osteoporosis, including the new anabolic drugs
• Plus miscellaneous other cases including generalised anxiety, chronic cough, B12 deficiency and more!

We look forward to seeing you on any of our LIVE courses from March 8th, or on demand of course via NB Plus!