Hot Topics GP Update Spring 2023 Course Preview

Hot Topics GP Update Spring Preview 2023

Have you been too busy this year to keep up with the journals and guidelines? Do you want to practise up to date, evidence-based medicine? Do you want to be inspired thinking about the interface of patient plus science that makes general practice so endlessly fascinating? If so, do come and join us for the new season of the Hot Topics GP Update course. We are confident that we have the most up to date course out there and all the topics we present will be completely new compared to the course 12 months ago, and the accompanying detailed electronic and paper course book will be fully updated.

For Hot Topics, 25 years of experience and constantly responding to the feedback from our delegates has enabled us to produce a clinically relevant course format that really works for busy, front-line health professionals in primary care. But don’t just listen to us: 99% of our delegates say they will return. And, of course, all the material is 100% independent, and free from any external influence.

Topics that we shall cover for Spring and Summer 2023 will include:

• Cardiovascular 
  • Statins: the 2023 NICE draft guidelines, are they recommending statins in the water then? Not exactly. We look under the bonnet and explore the clinical implications with you.
  • Chest pain: how do we manage patients who have chest pain due to INOCA, which is ‘ischaemia with non-obstructed coronary arteries’?
  • Heart failure: we look at the Hot Topics of diagnosis, iron therapy and do we have a game changer for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?
• Diabetes
  • Steroid induced diabetes, a common and frequently mismanaged problem in primary care. What can we learn from new guidance?
• Cancer
  • Abdominal pain and cancer, when should we worry with a new presentation of abdominal pain and the rapidly evolving role of the FIT test.
  • The covert cancers: how can we diagnose pancreatic and ovarian cancers at an earlier stage?
• Infections
  • Management of recurrent UTIs, and nitrofurantoin monitoring.
• Paediatrics
  • Fever in the under 5s – should we still be using the traffic light system for risk assessment of patients or go on clinical ‘gut feel’?
• Respiratory
  • Asthma, is it time to say goodbye and move on from our old friend salbutamol?
• Mental health
  • Eating disorders: MEED – the new Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders guideline, important learning points for primary care. What are the red flags which should prompt emergency admission?
• Women’s health
  • Endometriosis, when and how should we diagnose this common disabling condition in primary care, and how best can we help our patients who have it?
• Gastroenterology
  • Dyspepsia: What causes ‘functional dyspepsia’ and how should it be managed?
• Miscellaneous cases of the day 
  • Including hidradenitis, gynaecomastia, shoulder pain, gout and more

We look forward to seeing you!