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PHARMA-FREE https://linktr.ee/redwhale Our mission is to provide primary care clinicians with the best quality medical education in the UK – creating content that you can put into practice straight away, making your life a little bit easier and enabling you to provide your patients with the best care possible. We try to offer products that respond to the different learning styles of all primary care clinicians, at different stages in their career; from our beloved handbooks to our flagship one day face to face update courses, to online courses, award winning webinars and online resources you can access 24/7. And whilst we can’t promise to make the long days shorter, the dark days lighter or your appointment list any less crowded, we CAN promise that we will do some of the hard work for you, cutting through the clutter and producing relevant content and tools to help you deal with the challenges you face every day and save you time and energy. The quality of our education is our guiding principle. We are far from perfect, but we will never knowingly let our standards drop. If we accidentally make a mistake (and we do make a few), we will tell you and apologise. We hold our customers, colleagues, suppliers and environmental concerns at the forefront of every decision we make. We strive to do better by each and every one of our stakeholders, even when it costs us more to do so. While all that might sound a bit serious, we never take ourselves too seriously, incorporating a good dose of humour in everything we do. Oh, and you’ve probably heard us mention this before, but we will never ever EVER take pharmaceutical company sponsorship of any kind, no exhibitors, no pharma sponsored mail shots, not even a biscuit a pen or a sticky note! And we’re shamelessly proud of it!

Just in time for some easy CPD on this wet weekend... a new podcast episode is now live! Find us here https://hubs.li/Q0...
14/11/2025

Just in time for some easy CPD on this wet weekend... a new podcast episode is now live! Find us here https://hubs.li/Q03Tb_jc0 or anywhere you find your podcasts!

You never know what is going to come through the door in General Practice... but we are here to help. Our one-day online...
13/11/2025

You never know what is going to come through the door in General Practice... but we are here to help. Our one-day online Urgent and On-The-Day Primary Care course is just one week away, and is jam-packed with more than 30 topics and is designed to suit the needs of the whole multidisciplinary primary care team. https://hubs.li/Q03SZz340

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the commonest cause of pathological vaginal discharge in women of reproductive age. It’s not...
13/11/2025

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the commonest cause of pathological vaginal discharge in women of reproductive age. It’s not an easy diagnosis for us to confirm – although we can suspect clinically and manage empirically. But what about recurrent bacterial vaginosis? Our Pearl this week can help! https://hubs.li/Q03SYRC70

We know the AKT can feel like a big hurdle, but you’re not alone. This month’s GPST Pearl brings you two essential reads...
12/11/2025

We know the AKT can feel like a big hurdle, but you’re not alone. This month’s GPST Pearl brings you two essential reads to make your preparation easier:
✏️Preparing for the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT): Top tips from Red Whale TPDs and trainers to help you feel confident.
✏️Statistics for the GP Trainee: Evidence-based practice accounts for 10% of AKT marks – we’ve simplified the key themes for you. https://hubs.li/Q03SMTpP0

Adrenal insufficiency and Addison’s disease can be easy to miss. In this week’s Pearl we share our recently updated arti...
07/11/2025

Adrenal insufficiency and Addison’s disease can be easy to miss. In this week’s Pearl we share our recently updated article distilling the 2024 NICE guidance. Make sure you check it out here https://hubs.ly/Q03S8DTV0

Our brand new Menopause Masterclass is live-hosted and available on demand from 7 November. This long awaited one day co...
04/11/2025

Our brand new Menopause Masterclass is live-hosted and available on demand from 7 November. This long awaited one day course will leave you feeling empowered to:

-Make more complex prescribing decisions.
-Support women living with menopause alongside other long term conditions including cancer, vascular disease, liver disease, and mental health concerns​.
-Go beyond HRT – with increased knowledge of a wider range of tools to provide holistic patient care​.

Book your place on the Menopause Masterclass now!
So if you have a good working knowledge of menopause management, and want a deeper understanding of more complex and challenging issues, we'll see you there!

https://hubs.li/Q03RyfgM0

The word ‘addiction’ conjures specific images for each of us. Perhaps it is a person struggling to stop smoking in STOPT...
30/10/2025

The word ‘addiction’ conjures specific images for each of us. Perhaps it is a person struggling to stop smoking in STOPTOBER? Or perhaps it is a behaviour more ‘normalised’ and ubiquitous in our society – such as alcohol or social media use? All can impact health. In this week’s Pearl, we share our article on addictive behaviours. https://hubs.li/Q03QVZy30

You never quite know what's coming through your door when you work in primary care. Wouldn't it be nice to know that wha...
28/10/2025

You never quite know what's coming through your door when you work in primary care. Wouldn't it be nice to know that whatever curve balls you're thrown, help is at hand?

With Red Whale Unlimited that's exactly what you get. With our super fast search of over 900 articles and GEMS (Guidelines and Evidence Made Simple), you've got answers at your fingertips. And, for longer term learning, you'll get access to:

✨ ALL our online courses - inc 2 GP Updates per year
📽️ 300+ video bytes to squeeze learning into the tightest schedule

https://hubs.li/Q03P_8bK0

NEW episode of the Red Whale Primary Care podcast 🎧This time we're talking about cervical screening intervals and varice...
24/10/2025

NEW episode of the Red Whale Primary Care podcast 🎧This time we're talking about cervical screening intervals and varicella post-exposure prophylaxis. Available here, or anywhere you get your podcasts! https://hubs.li/Q03P_7V80

October is National Cholesterol Month so we may see more people come forward to ask for a cholesterol check. And, as we ...
23/10/2025

October is National Cholesterol Month so we may see more people come forward to ask for a cholesterol check. And, as we are processing the results, we need to have our antennae out for possible cases of familial hypercholesterolemia. Read our Pearl now if you want to brush up on how to spot it https://hubs.li/Q03PRbp20

This week we have a special podcast episode to recommend. Our Pearl, released yesterday (if you missed it, it's here htt...
17/10/2025

This week we have a special podcast episode to recommend. Our Pearl, released yesterday (if you missed it, it's here https://hubs.li/Q03P5nnZ0) covers ultra-processed food and features in the most recent episode of released today.

Red Whale presenters Hussain Al-Zubaidi and Nik Kendrew discuss the TV documentary that everyone has been talking about - "Joe Wicks: licensed to kill", that has recently been on Channel 4 in the UK.

What do we in primary care need to know about ultra processed food? Was the documentary really as bad as social media would have us believe, or is there room for a more nuanced conversation? Click on the link below to listen, or search for 'Boggled Docs' wherever you get your podcasts!

https://hubs.li/Q03P5pXg0

Joe Wicks’ recent documentary ‘Licensed to Kill’ has brought UPF back into the spotlight. While the scare-tactic languag...
16/10/2025

Joe Wicks’ recent documentary ‘Licensed to Kill’ has brought UPF back into the spotlight. While the scare-tactic language in the title and promo are perhaps not the best way to support people to make sustained change, the programme contained some important points and may well result in questions coming primary care’s way. So, this week, we thought we would share our article on ultra-processed food: an overview of this topic and summary of some of the evidence https://hubs.li/Q03NV3R00

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Our mission is to provide primary care practitioners with the best quality medical education in the UK (and abroad through our Social Enterprise PCI) – creating content that you can put into practice straight away, making your life a little bit easier and enabling you to provide your patients with the best care possible.

We try to offer products that respond to the different learning styles of all primary care clinicians, at different stages in their career; from our beloved handbooks to our flagship one day face to face update courses, to online courses, award winning webinars and online resources you can access 24/7.

And whilst we can’t promise to make the long days shorter, the dark days lighter or your appointment list any less crowded, we CAN promise that we will do some of the hard work for you, cutting through the clutter and producing relevant content and tools to help you deal with the challenges you face every day and save you time and energy.

The quality of our education is our guiding principle. We are far from perfect, but we will never knowingly let our standards drop. If we accidentally make a mistake (and we do make a few), we will tell you and apologise.