We run one day courses throughout the UK and Ireland where we update GPs with all the recent papers and guidelines.
By GPs for GPs, our mission is to help busy GPs with the difficult task of keeping up with all the new developments, papers and guidelines that are relevant to our daily work. We take the time busy GPs do not have to trawl through the literature, distil it and give GPs the essential information they really need to help their patients. The courses are designed to be fun and engaging, and delegates leave with lots of ideas to take back to the practice and to help them help their patients and to help with appraisal and revalidation. Delegates receive a detailed book (now also with on-line access) which summarises all the material and is an invaluable consulting room reference!
09/03/2026
BLOG: Allergy Testing in Primary Care
The dilemma: we desperately don’t want to miss anyone with a significant allergy, but instinctively feel tests are being requested and performed unnecessarily. Plus, navigating patient expectations is challenging!
The good news: the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology has published an excellent Primary Care guide on IgE testing in General Practice.
The next step: if you've always found it difficult and confusing to know when and when not to do allergy tests in general practice, read Dr Rob Walker's latest blog. You'll find it on our website.
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06/03/2026
It's today... The first face-to-face GP Update of 2026. Enjoy every minute!
05/03/2026
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05/03/2026
Starting soon, the Hot Topics GP Update webinar. See you at 9.30am!
04/03/2026
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03/03/2026
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02/03/2026
The NEW Hot Topics GP Update Course for Spring 2026 – What shall we be covering?
Our brand-new Hot Topics GP Update course brings together the most important recent research and guideline changes, distilled into short, clinically focused, highly practical sessions delivered by our great team of coalface NHS GPs.
You can read more about the course, and what we shall be covering, in this week’s blog. We’d love you to join us for what we believe is the most up-to-date, fun and pragmatic GP Update course out there!
Our upcoming Hot Topics GP Update Course, taking place in London on Friday 6th March, has been designed for the realities of modern primary care.
This is the most fun and up-to-date course out there, helping you stay confident and current in everyday clinical practice with concise, evidence-based updates you can use immediately, including:
• The new NICE Type 2 Diabetes guideline (published February 2026)
• Practice-changing guidance on heart failure and CKD
• Practical management of common clinical challenges (e.g. menopausal symptoms in women with breast cancer, faecal incontinence and asthma in children)
Plus important new data on antidepressants, GLP-1 therapies, and more!
Will you join us?
28/02/2026
Assessing and treating children is a vital aspect of the work of everyone in general practice.
In the Paediatrics course, we cover acute presentations in children, including the assessment of the unwell child, emergencies such as sepsis, meningitis and respiratory illness, and revisit some common diagnoses too.
We also have a detailed section on the management of adolescents presenting with mental health crises, and a brand-new section on the assessment and management of neurodiversity, including information on both autism and ADHD. We also cover limp in children, and child development topics such as the 6-8 week check and faltering growth.
Alongside the presentation, we also have a detailed course book covering all of these topics in detail and many more, including new areas such as ARFID, paediatric urology and an update on common problems in infancy.
The next half-day course is on Friday, 8th May 2026.
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NB Medical Education was founded over 20 years ago by doctors Simon Curtis and Phil Nichols. The original aim was to help GP trainees pass their MRCGP exam.
The first ‘Hot Topics’ course was held in London in September 1998 and from those small beginnings has grown into today’s business which provides CPD training for over 20,000 Primary Care healthcare professionals per year.
Our presenting team, led by Dr Simon Curtis in Oxford, are all NHS GPs and Nurses who are recognised nationally and internationally within their area of expertise and work tirelessly to maintain a position at the forefront of modern practice.
We continually redesign course content and ensure we align with the latest and most up to date policies, procedures and best practice.
As the NHS has evolved NB's offering has also grown and, in addition to our signature 'Hot Topics' GP Update course, we now also offer face to face courses in a broad range of specialist subjects, all targeted at the Primary Care workforce, including Women’s Health, Diabetes and Cancer. We also provide CCGs, Urgent Care and private organisations with bespoke update courses for their workforce.
Our courses are held throughout the UK and Ireland and we have taught in Australia, too. We have also recognised that work commitments do not always allow us the time out of practice to attend face to face courses therefore we continue to develop our online business and we now offer our courses as webinars, plus other resources like blogs, podcasts and Keep It Simple Summaries (KISS).
