Colorectal Cancer and FIT Tests
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Online Courses
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With a pre-recorded NB course, you can work your way through a course at your own leisure and at your own speed. We offer 3 and 6 hour courses, broken down into topics, available 24 hours a day to suit your own schedule.
The Hot Topics GP Update course is the original one-day course to update GPs with the latest developments in the literature and to serve as a platform for CPD and help to deliver better patient care. The course revolves around short, engaging presentations that merge recent clinical evidence with real-life clinical scenarios.
- Individual Booking
£195 - Group or third party booking
Join us for our next NB Cancer Clinic, brought to you in collaboration with Cancer Research UK. We are discussing all things related to bowel cancer - the latest statistics on incidence and risk factors, the indications for doing a FIT test, referral pathways for those with suspected bowel cancer and supporting the bowel cancer screening programme.
- Individual Booking
Free - Group or third party booking
Come and join NB Medical & CRUK to discuss all things related to bowel cancer. In this clinic we will cover the latest statistics on the incidence and survival of bowel cancer, it's risks and strategies for prevention. We will look at some recent and upcoming changes in the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme as well as some exciting new research around the use of symptomatic FIT testing in Primary Care. A jam-packed and super useful hour of CPD suitable for any patient-facing role in Primary Care.
- Individual Booking
Free - Group or third party booking
In the third of our four-part Cancer webinar series supported by Cancer Research UK we focus on diagnostic tests and safety netting, with updates on symptomatic FIT and CA125 primary care tests, focusing on the reliability and sequencing of tests and safety netting those routine referrals.
- Individual Booking
Free - Group or third party booking
Books
The Hot Topics Course reference book accompanies the course but is also available to purchase separately
The book is fully referenced with recent summaries of the evidence commonly seen in primary care. Most of our delegates use this every day, like they use the BNF.
Cancer
Hot Topics GP Update
Blogs
Is FIT fit for purpose?
Dr Nick Jones
15th December 2022
I think it is fair to say that the recent NHS England letter to practices advising on the role of Faecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) in the assessment of people with suspected colorectal cancer has not...
Colon cancer, spotting the Big C in the young
Dr Simon Curtis
19th May 2022
Dame Deborah James, the ‘Bowelbabe’ and host of the You, Me and the Big C BBC podcast has had a huge impact in breaking down stigma and raising awareness as well as millions of pounds for bowel cancer....
Bowel Cancer and the new test very much FIT for purpose
Dr Rob Walker
10th February 2021
Thank you so much to all of you who joined us for a great live webinar on cancer care last Saturday. With well over 300 colleagues logging in all the way from the Scottish Borders to the south of England,...
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Podcasts
S4 E7: NHS in crisis, still... Molnupiravir for acute covid, healthy lifestyle for dementia, patient perspective on FIT
27th January 2023
Welcome to another HOT TOPICS podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In the podcast cast we reflect on the latest commentaries from the political parties and medical organisations on how they can help with the NHS crisis. We can’t promise a solution, but we can help you stay up to date with the world of research.
S3 E15: Gout and CV events; early identification of colorectal cancer; barriers to shared decision making in multimorbidity
3rd August 2022
Welcome to a new Hot Topics Podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. It's the summer holidays! We hope a little pressure is off at your practices and you might even get a break yourself.
S2 E16 - Blood bottle crisis; community covid treatments; rotator cuff injury; FIT testing for cancer
11th August 2021
In this summer holidays episode of the Hot Topics Podcast, Neal Tucker looks at the latest research for the primary care community.
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