Educational Podcasts and Videos Focusing on Diagnosis and Management of Clinical Conditions
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Anxiety and depression: why doctors are prescribing gardening rather than drugs
Basic Skin Lesion Recognition with a Dermoscope – For GPs & AHPs
Basic Skin Lesion Recognition without Dermoscopy – For GPs & AHPs
Clean Air in Practice: Supporting Patients, Staff and Ourselves
Coronary Artery Calcification on screening Lung CT Scans: What Should GPs Do?
Diagnosis and Management of Common Skin Rashes for GPs & AHPs
ENT Essentials for the Primary Care Practitioner
FeNO testing to improve asthma diagnosis and management – for GPs & AHPs
Hepatitis C – a good news story
Management of Chronic Pain & Deprescribing
Pain Services Explained: A Conversation for GPs
Pertussis (Whooping Cough) in Primary Care
Respiratory Care & Paediatric Asthma
Seeing things clearly – understanding opticians and their services
Tourette Syndrome and the role of the GP
Anxiety and depression: why doctors are prescribing gardening rather than drugs
Many GPs are now prescribing growing and other green activities, and evidence suggests that this can be as effective at treating anxiety and depression as medication, and sometimes more so.
Dr Anne Hayden founder of the Grown your own Rainbow Gardens initiative explains how the project helps address physical and mental wellbeing and food insecurity. The initiative is about empowering people to take control of their lives by coming together as a supportive community, better able to cope with life’s challenges. Lawrence Camilleri, founder of Forever More Food works in partnership with the project which has been steadily gowning in popularity.
To find out more and get involved, email yourplanetdoctors@gmail.com
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Basic Skin Lesion Recognition with a Dermoscope – For GPs & AHPs
Designed for GPs and Allied Health Professionals, this session is delivered by Associate specialist in Dermatology, Dr Stephen Hayes, who brings over two decades of hands-on dermatology expertise to his teaching.
The aim of this recorded session is to guide delegates on the use of dermoscopy as a practical tool for improving skin lesion diagnosis. The dermoscope (some users prefer the term dermatoscope) is a portable, hand-held skin microscope which is now well proven as an invaluable tool in skin lesion recognition. It is often called ‘The dermatologist’s stethoscope’ and this is a fitting analogy because it is a simple piece of kit, deployed after history taking, inspection and palpation have been done, which gathers additional clinical data leading to better diagnostic decisions. Some training is required.
To become a real expert with the dermoscope takes time and mentoring, but clinical trials have shown that GPs can significantly improve their ability to recognise skin cancers after just one day of training. The Primary Care Dermatology Society has long advocated that GPs and practice nurses should use dermoscopy primarily to support the diagnosis of everyday benign lesions (warts, banal naevi, haemangiomas etc) to avoid patients with such lesions being sent needlessly on cancer pathways.
Dr Hayes teaches the ‘Chaos and Clues’ method for interpreting dermoscopic images, which is well validated and the easiest method to teach and learn.
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Basic Skin Lesion Recognition without Dermoscopy – For GPs & AHPs
Designed for GPs and Allied Health Professionals, this session is delivered by Associate specialist in Dermatology, Dr Stephen Hayes, who brings over two decades of hands-on dermatology expertise to his teaching.
Skin cancer, and the fear of skin cancer, has been steadily increasing world wide in predominantly white populations for at least half a century. Melanoma and other primary cutaneous malignancies kill around 3,000 people a year in Britain, more than road traffic accidents, cervical cancer and meningitis combined, so it’s an important public health matter calling for an active response. GPs are asked to review patients’ moles and other skin lesions daily, despite having had little training in lesion diagnostics. Fear of missing a melanoma leads to excess referrals and thousands of obviously benign lesions are referred on the urgent skin cancer pathway annually.
This session will discuss the natural history of common and important skin lesions, key factors in the history, inspection and palpation and also red flag warning signs that will help the working GP make safe and efficient decisions in the surgery. The session will assume no prior knowledge, look at basic principles and consider each lesion type with dozens of examples to showcase the range of lesion appearances, with particular emphasis on how to confidently reassure the patient with a harmless skin lesion without missing a melanoma.
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Clean Air in Practice: Supporting Patients, Staff and Ourselves
Louise Greenwood (Director of Education and Training at Wessex LMCs) talks to Bea Udale-Smith from The Environment Centre. They chat about how clinicians can help their patients in consultations, social prescribers can signpost patients to resources, how managers can help staff – and how we can all help ourselves. It is not just about our lungs – air pollution can affect so much more. Find out how to become a clean air champion, undertake a module to learn more and take home some handy tips for living with cleaner air.
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Coronary Artery Calcification on screening Lung CT Scans: What Should GPs Do?
Coronary artery calcification is increasingly being reported on CT scans performed as part of Targeted Lung Health Checks. But what does it mean for patients, and how should primary care respond?
In this podcast Dr Will Howard, GP and Medical Director at Wessex LMCs, speaks with Dr Os Alsanjari, Consultant Cardiologist at Basingstoke Hospital, about the clinical significance of incidental coronary artery calcification and its implications for cardiovascular risk management.
Designed for GPs and other patient-facing primary care clinicians, this practical discussion explores how to interpret these findings, answer patients’ questions with confidence, and support shared decision-making when CT results identify coronary artery calcification.
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Diagnosis and Management of Common Skin Rashes for GPs & AHPs
Designed for GPs and Allied Health Professionals, this session is delivered by Associate specialist in Dermatology, Dr Stephen Hayes, who brings over two decades of hands-on dermatology expertise to his teaching.
It is thought that skin problems make up to 20% of GPs’ clinical workload but barely 1% of their training (if that). The subject can be intimidating, with over 1,000 known rashes (maybe 4,000 if all variants are considered) but it can be simplified for the working GP by taking a systematic approach and concentrating on the five common skin problems. These are: eczema/dermatitis in all it’s forms, psoriasis, infections (fungal, bacterial, viral and infestations), acne and urticaria. The GP who is confident with these 5 everyday skin disease groups will do very well indeed, and it is not that difficult if you understand the basic underlying disease principles and a few simple rules.
Common rashes will be considered with a brief look at the underlying biology, history and examination and rational therapeutic approaches. Uncommon variants, special cases and when to refer will be discussed. The occasional skin emergency needing urgent referral will also be considered, and educational resources mentioned.
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ENT Essentials for the Primary Care Practitioner
In this interactive session, our expert speaker, Mr Afroze Khan, Consultant ENT Surgeon at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Foundation Trust, will present the latest advice and guidelines on how to safely manage ear, nose and throat conditions commonly seen in Primary Care.
Mr Khan will also cover:
- Sudden hearing loss – a medical emergency?
- Common ENT conditions – Tinnitus, recurrent ear infections, globus
- Newer ENT treatments options available and when to refer.
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FeNO testing to improve asthma diagnosis and management – for GPs & AHPs
Learn how to use FeNO testing to improve asthma diagnosis and management within primary care – practical advice and real world examples for the jobbing GP and AHP.
FeNO is a safe, fast and non-invasive measure of airway inflammation characteristically seen in asthma. It can help provide a more accurate diagnosis of asthma in adults and children/young people. With poor asthma outcomes across the UK and a misdiagnosis rate of 30%, it is essential that we reduce the amount of guesswork that we currently rely on in the care of our patients with asthma and suspected asthma.
This recorded webinar will help bridge the gap between national guidelines and clinical practice by providing applied practical information on how to best use FeNO testing in primary care, offering case studies, real world examples, resources and access to national training.
- Challenges of diagnosing Asthma
- What is FeNO testing and why should we use it?
- How to do a FeNO test
- QOF and FeNO
- Case Studies
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Hepatitis C – a good news story
Professor Ryan Buchanan (Wessex Clinical Hepatitis C Lead) and Dr Nicholas Ballantyne (Wessex Clinical Hepatitis C GP Champion) talk to Dr Laura Edwards (Joint CEO Wessex LMCs) about the complete transformation in treatment approach and outcomes for Hepatitis C and talk about the possibility of elimination of this disease. Listen to this good news story and share the positive message.
Look at HepCulater: https://www.hepculater.com/ for more resources and for self referral for free NHS testing and follow up for your patients.
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Lyme Disease Awareness
In this podcast we explore Lyme disease, its prevalence and presentations. Lyme disease symptoms may be non-specific and difficult to recognise. Raising awareness amongst primary care clinicians will increase the likelihood of patients receiving early and effective treatment.
Dr Camilla Janssen talks to infectious disease and microbiology consultant, Matthew Dryden, from the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL), Porton Down.
Matthew explains:
- Lyme presentation and manifestation – thinking about the three stages of Lyme disease
- early localized phase
- early disseminated phase (Neuro dissemination / radiculopathy)
- late stage Lyme disease.
- what tests and treatment may be appropriate including asymptomatic prophylaxis following a tick bite.
- A look at serology and interpretation in the context of the clinical setting.
- Chronic fatigue triggered by Lyme disease
The RCGP have produced this user friendly Lyme Disease Toolkit for medical professionals and patients.
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Management of Chronic Pain & Deprescribing
Recent NICE guidance on the management of chronic pain and shortly on deprescribing drugs of dependency have brought the issues of both pain and prescription painkiller dependency to the fore. The PCN prescribing incentive scheme this year also makes it clear that the expectation is that the vast majority of these drugs are tapered off where appropriate.
The purpose of this interactive one hour webinar is to cover the “how to” as it usually isn’t easy. Tips to improve your practice systems, practice pearls and how to move your patients away from medical dependency to a more self reliance will be covered.
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Osteoporosis for GPs
Wessex LMCs Joint CEO, Dr Andy Purbrick talks to Dr Jonathan Marks, Consultant Rheumatologist at UHD Hospital, as they discuss the latest guidelines around osteoporosis management and how GPs can put them into practice.
- Summary of main recommendations | NOGG
- Fracture Risk Assessment Tool
- Royal Osteoporosis Society – Better Bone Health for Everybody (theros.org.uk)
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Pain Services Explained: A Conversation for GPs
In this podcast, Dr Will Howard, Medical Director at Wessex LMCs, is joined by Cathy Price, a Pain Medicine Consultant with over 25 years of experience. Together, they explore current pain services and how GPs can make the most of them, discuss how to identify appropriate patients for referral, and consider the value of a multidisciplinary approach.
Useful Links:
- British Pain Society – https://www.britishpainsociety.org/
- Live Well with Pain – https://livewellwithpain.co.uk/
- Persistent Pain – https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/msk/our-services/persistent-pain
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Pertussis (Whooping Cough) in Primary Care
Pertussis – the latest infectious disease to make the headlines, but also to cause real risk to the most vulnerable patients in our population. Listen to Dr Sanjay Patel, Consultant in Infections disease at Southampton Hospital talk Dr Will Howard, a Wessex LMCs Medical Director, about pertussis, what’s going on, how to recognise and treat it, and how we might minimise its future impact through prevention by immunisation.
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Respiratory Care & Paediatric Asthma
In this podcast our Nurse Advisor Zoe Tobin is joined by Emma Ray (Respiratory Nurse Specialist in General Practice & Clinical Practice Educator: Children and young people with Asthma HIOW) to discuss all things respiratory. They talk through effective paediatric asthma care in primary care, staff training and development, and resources and support for the practice team in the delivery of respiratory services.
Useful links
Primary Care Respiratory Society
Association of Respiratory Nurses
National Paediatric Respiratory and Allergy Nurses Group- NPRANG
Find a local peer support network | Primary Care Respiratory Society (pcrs-uk.org) – Please note– you will be able to find local groups and forums but in order to contact them membership is required.
Contact for Emma Ray- Emma.ray@uhs.nhs.uk
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Seeing things clearly – understanding opticians and their services
Dr Laura Edwards, Joint CEO at Wessex LMCs, and Bryony Allen, Chair of Hampshire Local Optical Committee, discuss all things relating to opticians.
- How are they trained?
- Who can receive NHS services?
- Why can’t opticians refer directly?
- How are things in the world of optometry?
All this and more…
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Tourette’s Syndrome and the role of the GP
In this podcast, Zoe Tobin, Nurse Advisor for Wessex LMCs is kindly joined by Dr Kate Szymankiewicz, a GP in a Wiltshire practice, with a specialist interest in Tourette’s syndrome and young people’s mental health, to raise awareness around the syndrome and in particular the role of the GP in the patient’s journey and diagnosis, the podcast will cover:
- What is Tourette’s Syndrome – is there a known cause, other co- existing conditions and associated stigma and challenges of living with the syndrome
- How do you diagnose – when do the symptoms first present, can this develop at anytime to anyone, what is the difference between experiencing ‘ticks’ and a diagnosis of Tourette’s Syndrome
- How can we support the individual and family post diagnosis – impact a diagnosis can bring for the individual and their family, strategies to support them.
- What support is available for the individual and their families – where can we signpost for further support.
- Where can I access learning support as a clinician – e-learning modules and further resources.
e-learning modules:
- TA website Tourettes Action eLearning Module (tourettes-action.org.uk)
- NHS Learning Hub – Resource (learninghub.nhs.uk)
Tourette’s Action homepage: https://www.tourettes-action.org.uk/
Functional symptoms: https://neurosymptoms.org/en/
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Tuberculosis in Primary Care
In this podcast, Dr Andy Purbrick, Wessex LMCs Joint CEO is joined by David Thomas, TB Consultant Nurse from University Hospital Dorset.
They discuss important aspects of Tuberculosis (TB), particularly focusing on the rise in TB cases, screening, risk factor groups and common signs and symptoms associated with the disease.
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