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Online Courses
Want to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule? Why not try an NB Medical pre-recorded course?
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 Cancer for Primary Care course will bring you right up to date with recent developments in cancer care. Designed and written for anyone managing cancer patients in General Practice, this course will enable you to deliver optimal, evidence-based care for your patients.
- Individual Booking
£195 - 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.
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Blogs
Cancer in pregnancy- seeing beyond the bump!
Dr Laura Darby
13th May 2025
Cancer diagnosis during pregnancy or in the post-partum period is thankfully a rare occurrence, with an estimated incidence of 1 in 1000 pregnancies in England. A key challenge is distinguishing symptoms...
Ethnic Inequalities in Cancer Diagnosis – What’s Really Causing the Delays?
Dr Zoe Norris
30th April 2025
As a profession when we look at improving cancer care and making earlier diagnoses, we tend to focus on either patient factors like lifestyle, occupation or genetics, or on tumour biology. The differences...
Facing the Future: discussing prognosis with patients at the end of life
Dr Rachel Brettell
8th May 2024
We all have patients who stay with us long after they have passed away. Vera is one of those patients to me. She was an amazing, stoical woman who had stage 4 endometrial cancer when I took over as her...
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Podcasts
S6 E10: GPs vs PTSD; GLP1s vs PAD; Exercise vs Cancer
9th May 2025
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this edition, we look at three new pieces of research.
S6 E9: Interview with Dr Stephen Bradley on CXR rates in GP & lung cancer; orthostatic HYPERtension; overactive bladder tests
11th April 2025
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we are joined by Dr Stephen Bradley, lead author of a new paper published in the BJGP looking at rates of CXR use in general practice and how this influences lung cancer stage at diagnosis and mortality.
S6 E3: "GP Trainee ARRS Song"; Semaglutide & Knee OA; SLGT2i & Kidney Stones; Interview with Drs Alex Norman & Oliver Hulson on role of PSA Testing
1st November 2024
Welcome to the latest Hot Topics Podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we look at two new papers on the drugs de jour: GLP1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors. Can the former reduce pain in knee osteoarthritis and can the latter prevent recurrent renal stones?
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