Hot Topics GP Update Spring 2024 Preview

The Hot Topics GP Update course is the easiest and most fun way to keep up to date with all the latest developments in the literature, relevant to anyone working in front-line General Practice. If you are in a primary care, patient-facing role, this is the course for you!

Keeping up to date with all the latest evidence, guidelines and clinical developments in General Practice is incredibly time consuming. So, we do all the hard work for you by trawling through all the mainstream journals and guidelines over the last year, and then appraising and distilling the papers most relevant us in primary care. We then present you with an easily digestible update of all the latest developments PLUS an invaluable reference source at your fingertips for when you are seeing patients, with our newly improved and fully updated course book available in paper and electronic formats. 

To suit your busy lifestyle and learning type you can choose whether you do the live and fully interactive course, or you can do the course on demand and in your own time. All the Hot Topics we present will be new compared to a year ago, and will include:

• Stroke and TIA – new national guidelines look at diagnosis in the community, changes to antiplatelet regimens including the fascinating pharmacogenetics of clopidogrel resistance, and secondary prevention
• Lipids – in December 2023, NICE introduced a new cardiovascular secondary prevention target for LDL; we look at this and the ‘escalation strategies’ beyond statins needed to reach it 
• Chronic kidney disease – we explore the new evidence and national guidelines supporting new practice changing, intervention strategies for CKD in primary care including the role for SGLT2i 
• Obesity and overweight – we discuss the new evidence, guidelines and controversy around the use of the GLP-1 analogues including semaglutide 
• Cancer - lung cancer is a real Hot Topic - we look at lung cancer in non-smokers, which is on the rise and easily missed, ask does CXR still have a role in the investigation of suspected lung cancer in primary care and examine the implications of the new lung cancer screening programme in the UK
• Respiratory – we look at intriguing new research and guideline recommendations that suggest we look at eosinophil counts to guide our management
• Gastroenterology – we have an update on IBS based on new research, looking at investigation, dietary and drug management of this difficult to manage condition
• Mental health – we look at bipolar disorder, and how we can improve diagnosis and management in primary care of this high-impact condition and new updated guidelines for improving cardiometabolic outcomes in people with serious mental illness
• Women’s Health – PCOS, new guidelines on diagnosis and management including the role of COCP and metformin
• Miscellaneous Hot Topics cases – cases with recent changes to practice including migraine, acne, glue ear and others

We look forward to seeing you on one of our LIVE courses from March 2^nd, or on demand, and of course via NB Plus!