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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.
- GP
£195 - GP Trainee
£150 - Nurses & Other Allied Health Professionals
£150 - Group or third party booking
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 - from changes to screening programmes, updates in cancer prevention, new hot topics in early diagnosis and developments in end-of-life care. This course will enable you to deliver optimal, evidence-based care for your patients, even during this time of Covid.
- GP
£195 - GP Trainee
£150 - Nurses & Other Allied Health Professionals
£150 - 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.
Blogs
Doc, can I have an MRI to screen for prostate cancer?
Dr Laura Darby & Dr Simon Curtis
13th September 2023
James is a 69 year old man, fit and well with no symptoms. He comes to see you, worried. ‘I’d like a prostate check. I had one of those PSA tests last year, which did put my mind at rest at the time. But...
Too Much Pink Should Make Our Hearts Sink…
Dr Philippa Davies
10th August 2023
Summer is finally here and as we’re strolling through the park listening to ‘Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen’ you realise not everyone has received this memo. ‘Lobster red’ appears to be the colour...
Doc, can I have the new DNA test to see if I have cancer?
Dr Simon Curtis
21st June 2023
Many of you will have had patients asking about this test as it was widely reported in the media BBC June 2023 following publication of the initial results of the NHS Symplify Trial last week. It all sounds...
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Podcasts
S5 E1: GP motivations; morning after pill & NSAIDs; cancer risk with non-erosive GORD
15th September 2023
Welcome to Season 5 of the Hot Topics podcast from NB Medical with Dr Neal Tucker. Despite celebrating our 25th birthday (don't forget to check out our NB Plus birthday special here) the world of medical news and research never stops.
S4 E9: "Do The Maths" song; JOMT interview - Dr Sam Merriel talks about prostate cancer; also antibiotic resistance, nitrofurantoin failure, kidney stones
10th March 2023
Welcome to the Hot Topics Podcast with host, Dr Neal Tucker. In this bumper edition, we have the next in our Just One More Thing series. We interview Dr Sam Merriel in collaboration with Prostate Cancer UK, talking about what we need to know in the world of prostate cancer. Should we be screening? Do we need to think beyond PSA? Does new technology change our approach?
S4 E8: JOMT Interview with PCRS chair, Dr Katherine Hickman; pushing bad pills, eye drops for myopia, CVD risk prediction in cancer survivors
17th February 2023
Welcome to the Hot Topics podcast with Dr Neal Tucker. In this episode, we speak to Dr Katherine Hickman, current chair of the Primary Care Respiratory Society, who answers our three Just One More Thing questions on what we need to know about from primary, secondary and future care with asthma.
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