Courses and events

Rated 9/10 for delegate satisfaction – discover the College’s wide-ranging catalogue of courses and events, designed to celebrate your achievements, support your wellbeing, develop your clinical and professional confidence, while connecting you to our diverse community.

We offer a diverse programme spanning everything from clinical updates and deep dives to management and leadership, wellbeing and innovation. Most events are free for RCGP members, and where there is a cost, you’ll benefit from preferential rates.

Looking for something specific? Easily search by event type, topic, location or date to find the perfect fit for your learning needs.

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Learn and Connect: CPR Update, Liverpool, 9.30am

You are invited to join our CPR Update/Refresher course taking place in Liverpool. A Learn and Connect event that will provide you with an update on basic life support, including a certificate for both adult and children, in accordance with UK resuscitation guidelines 2021, while also offering the opportunity to meet other local GPs. Free/refundable for RCGP members. £30 non members. Practice staff welcome. Other venues and dates available to book.

  • Date

    16 June 2026

  • Start time

    09:30

  • Places left

    12

Learn and Connect CPR Update, Liverpool, 11.30am

You are invited to join our CPR Update/Refresher course. A Learn and Connect event that will provide you with an update on basic life support, including a certificate for both adult and children, in accordance with UK resuscitation guidelines 2021, while also offering the opportunity to meet other local GPs. Free/refundable for RCGP members. £30 non members. Practice staff welcome. Other venues and dates available to book.

  • Date

    16 June 2026

  • Start time

    11:30

  • Places left

    14

Mersey Faculty Board - June 2026

Our Faculty Board meets quarterly (February, June, September, and November), primarily online. It comprises GP volunteers, lay representatives, and members from groups like First5 and GP registrars. Volunteers bring insights, share local updates, and shape general practice via feeding in to National Council Meetings. We encourage local GPs to join the Mersey Faculty and contribute actively.

  • Date

    17 June 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    50

Treating children and young people

Focuses on parental rights and responsibilities, consent and confidentiality considerations when treating young patients, safeguarding and child protection procedures.

  • Date

    18 June 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    183

Remote consultations

This seminar offers practical tips on providing remote consultations in a safe and effective manner, including the latest guidance, regulations and the medico-legal issues to consider.

  • Date

    07 July 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    141

GP Registrar Next Steps Support

Registrars and early career First 5 GPs; join us in Liverpool for a day of planning and getting the best from your future career, supporting you through your registrar years into your early career. We will look at, becoming a GP, career paths, how to be better financially fit for the future, appraisal/portfolio advice, exam preparation, and much more.

  • Date

    10 July 2026

  • Start time

    08:30

  • Places left

    93

Dealing with challenging consultations

This webinar covers factors that can contribute to difficult situations and puts forward strategies for working with patients towards an appropriate solution.

  • Date

    18 August 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    141

Avoiding prescribing and medication errors

Looks at MDU data on claims relating to these errors, GMC guidance, shared care prescribing, and the perils of doctors' self-prescribing.

  • Date

    15 September 2026

  • Start time

    19:00

  • Places left

    136

An introduction to speaking publicly or via the media for GPs

Giving you the power to say what you want to say and to say it well. This is the world of the soundbite, the app, the tweet, the word cloud. It's a world of 24-hour rolling news... of vox pops, webcasts and video clips. In business today, you are expected to be able to communicate quickly and simply: » to hit the right note » to come across well » to create memory. Whether it's talking via broadcast or narrowcast TV, on radio, to the press, or presenting to an audience, live or virtual, the right preparation gives you the power to say what you want to say and to say it well.

  • Date

    16 September 2026

  • Start time

    13:00

  • Places left

    174