Hot Topics Course Preview, Autum 2025

For over 25 years, the Hot Topics GP Update Course has been the most enjoyable, easy and effective way for front-line primary care professionals to stay up to date with the latest evidence and guidelines. If you’re working in a patient-facing role and want to deliver high quality, evidence-informed medicine then this course is designed for you!

We know that guidelines and research can sometimes feel a little, ahem, on the dry side (!), so we keep our teaching clear, concise, and clinically relevant. Presentations are short and punchy, the evidence is brought to life with real-world case examples and the course is packed with practical take-home messages and QI ideas you can put straight into practice. You’ll also receive a detailed, fully referenced course book, available in both print and digital formats, giving you a trusted resource to refer back to and to keep practising evidence-informed medicine throughout the year.

To suit your schedule and learning style, we have a variety of formats you can choose from.  You can join us in person at our London events on 26th and 27th September with Simon Curtis and Kate Digby, or take part in our live interactive online courses from 20th September, or access the content on demand at your own pace.

This season’s Hot Topics will include:

• Chronic Kidney Disease
  • Are you confident yet in starting SGLT2 inhibitors and/or ACEi/ARBs in patients with CKD? Who benefits most, and how do we manage patients holistically to improve outcomes? Drawing on the recent BJGP paper, new 2025 evidence and changes to the NICE TA, we’ll get you fully up to speed.
• Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Secondary prevention in CHD: major changes to practice are on the horizon. Do beta-blockers and dual antiplatelets still have a role after ACS? And how can we realistically achieve the new, very low LDL targets?
• Women’s Health
  • We discuss the ‘take homes’ from the new NICE menopause guidelines, including practical tips on testosterone prescribing PLUS practice-changing new evidence for the management of bacterial vaginosis.
• Diabetes, Metabolism & Obesity
  • Is remission of type 2 diabetes a realistic goal, and should we ever treat pre-diabetes with medication?
  • GLP-1s in patients with obesity and overweight: we look at the new NHS guidance, and what this means for primary care delivery. We’ll also cover important interactions, including with HRT and contraception.
• Respiratory
  • The 2024 BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guideline brings the biggest change in management for years - we’ll take you through what’s new, and what it means for your practice.
• Clinical Genetics in Primary Care
  • With genetics playing a growing role in everyday practice, we’ll focus on Lynch syndrome and hereditary haemochromatosis: when to suspect, test, or refer.
• Mental Health
  • Anxiety and panic disorder: should we still be prescribing propranolol? Plus, we’ll unpack the new NICE guidelines on gambling-related harms, which have practice changing recommendations.
• Men’s Health
  • Chronic pelvic pain syndrome/chronic prostatitis: we’ll explore new international guidance that finally gives unified, practical advice for this difficult to treat, common and very unpleasant condition.
• And more…
  • Including tricky cases such as management of chronic cough and faecal incontinence, and myeloma diagnosis - are you confident with understanding free light chains and Bence–Jones protein??? 

We look forward to seeing you on any of our course formats from September 20th, or on demand of course via NB Plus!