Top Ten Presenting Symptoms in General Practice for AHPs and GPNs

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Top Ten Presenting Symptoms in General Practice for AHPs and GPNs

Event Summary

This course focuses on ten common symptoms presenting in general practice and how to assess and manage patients safely. 

Tuesday, 10 November 2026
09:30 - 15:30
Ann Sunderland Zoom, United Kingdom

Main Contact

Lead Team
02380 253874
This training course is accessible for wheelchair users.
If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.

Event Speakers & Trainers

 Ann Sunderland
Ann Sunderland
Speaker/Trainer
ZOOM ONLINE EVENT This training will be run over Zoom from an account owned by the Trainer and NOT Wessex LMCs NB: This means we will need to provide the trainers with your email address and contact details - continuing with a booking on this basis will constitute your tacit agreement to this. To participate you will need to install Zoom on your device, ensure it has a microphone, speaker, and camera. Please Note: Some trainers will no longer allow you to stay on the call if you do not have your camera operating. If you are removed for this reason, you will not be reimbursed for the cost of the course.

Log into Zoom 09:15 session runs 09:30 to 15:30

Introduction

Enhance your triage and decision-making for common presentations seen in general practice.

Suitable for practice nurses, community nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals.

Aims

This course focuses on ten common symptoms presenting in general practice and how to assess and manage patients safely. Refresh and update your knowledge in a supportive, interactive learning environment.

Objectives

  • Undertake a focused and structured patient assessment
  • Recognise common presenting symptoms seen in general practice
  • Identify red flag signs and symptoms requiring escalation
  • Develop differential diagnosis and clinical reasoning skills
  • Provide evidence-based advice, management and safety netting
  • Enhance confidence in assessment and triage decision-making

Content

This interactive course will touch on:

  • History taking
  • Recognising red flags
  • Elements of physical examinations
  • Clinical reasoning and safety netting

The course incorporates case-based discussion and interactive learning throughout.

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Event Speakers & Trainers

 Ann Sunderland
Ann Sunderland
Consultant in Clinical Skills and Simulation

Ann qualified as a registered nurse in 1986. After working in a hospital setting for two years, she moved into general practice working as a practice nurse before qualifying as a nurse practitioner in 2001. She later moved into a hybrid clinical, leadership and managerial role within a local clinical commissioning group before entering full time academia in 2006. While undertaking a Masters degree in medical education, she developed a special interest in clinical simulation and worked as Director of Clinical Skills and Simulation at Leeds Beckett University. In 2018, she left to start her own business and now works freelance across a range of organisations including further education colleges, private education providers and industry partners specialising in clinical simulation. She is associate lecturer at both Sheffield Hallam and Huddersfield Universities and is currently completing a Doctor of Education degree, focusing on the use of virtual reality in assessment.

Price List

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Description

Price (Inc VAT)

All GPs and members of staff working within GP practices in Wessex LMCs’ catchment area

This option is for everyone working in a GP practice in Wessex LMC's catchment area, that does not fit into one of the other options on offer.

£130.00

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Nurses & AHPs Thanks to the HIOW Primary Care Training Hub and to NHSE Investment in Continual Professional Development, certain eligible roles such as Nurses and Allied Health Professionals can attend fully funded £00.00
BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire Clinicians (excluding GPs & HCAs) Thanks to the BSW Primary Care Training Hub and to the NHSE Investment in Continual Professional Development, some clinical roles can attend fully funded. These may include Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and HCAs. £00.00

Non Members

This is the cost if you are not working in a practice in the Wessex LMCs' catchment area. £260.00

Waiting List

Please be advised there are spaces available on this course unless it states otherwise. If a course is full you will be given the option to book on the waiting list. If you are on the waiting list and a place becomes available, you will be notified automatically via email, you do NOT need to contact Wessex LMCs. 

Refunds

All delegate fees are non-refundable, however, if it has been agreed that a refund is possible, it will be subject to an administration charge of £5 for delegate fees of £100 or less, or £10 for delegate fees more than £100.

Attendance Details

In certain circumstances, we will share details of attendance or non-attendance with the person who booked and/or funded this course for the delegate. If you have any objection to your attendance status being shared, please can you contact Louise Greenwood (Wessex LMCs Director of Education & Training) at least 48 hours before the start of the training at louise.greenwood@wessexlmcs.org.uk

Sponsorship

This event may be sponsored so companies have the opportunity to promote their product(s) at the start of the meeting. No sponsors have been involved in the selection of speakers, agenda items, or any other matters relating to this training. Your name and practice will be shared with the sponsor representative, but not your email address.

Further Dates

Top Ten Presenting Symptoms in General Practice for AHPs and GPNs
2 November
09:30 - 15:30
Ann Sunderland Zoom
Event Information

Introduction

This course focuses on ten common symptoms presenting in general practice and how to assess and manage patients safely.