Courses and events

RCGP South West Wales Faculty Board Meeting - February 2025

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. The board represents local views at RCGP Wales and Council meetings. We encourage local GPs to join and contribute actively.

• Date

  27 February 2025

• Start time

  19:00

• Places left

  25

Zoom

Telephone consulting and triage skills

This online course will provide you with a real understanding of how to manage the risks involved in remote telephone consultations and the benefits this work can bring when practiced effectively. This day will give you tools and techniques to best handle remote telephone consultations.

• Date

  28 February 2025

• Start time

  09:15

• Places left

  14

Wotton Under Edge

Severn Wotton Wellbeing Walk

Join us at our Severn Wotton Wellbeing Walk on Friday 28 February 2025 at 10am. Enjoy a 2 hour round walk to the historic Tyndale Monument from Wotton Under Edge, and then enjoy a barista-made coffee and a chat after in the Cotswold Town. We will be meeting at 10am in the free Chipping Car Park outside the Wotton Heritage Shop. We hope you will come along!

• Date

  28 February 2025

• Start time

  10:00

• Places left

  30

Chung Ku, Liverpool

Mersey Faculty Board social

We would like to invite Mersey Faculty Board members and a guest to join us for the afternoon at the Chung Ku restaurant, which boasts stunning views across the River Mersey. The afternoon is a very informal meal that includes two drinks per person.

• Date

  01 March 2025

• Start time

  13:00

• Places left

  19

Zoom

The RCGP South-West 1-day SCA Preparation Course

This 1-Day SCA Preparation Course aims to improve your consultation skills and help to provide you with all the relevant information and help you need to help you pass your SCA. The course offers interactive sessions with experienced trainers and examiners & actors. Please note that this 1-Day SCA Preparation Course is open to South-West Trainees only.

• Date

  03 March 2025

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  11

Zoom

Migraine management in primary care | Part 2

Part 1 of this free webinar series on migraine will cover intersection with other headaches and stroke, as well as tailoring management to populations and integration of learning into clinical practice.

• Date

  03 March 2025

• Start time

  19:00

• Places left

  1872

Zoom

Northwest England Faculty Board Meeting - March 2025

The Northwest Faculty board would like to invite you to Join our upcoming board meeting. We will discuss RCGP's upcoming Council agenda, which cover topics from health policy to standards of care and education in general practice, as well as RCGP's membership offer. All Board members are invited to share their views, for our Council rep to relay to RCGP Chair of Council. We rely on volunteers to play an active role, give views, feed in information from local groups and shape local general practice via the North West England Faculty board. All members are invited to attend their local Board meeting, and may wish to continue as a substantive attendee and contribute to our discussions by joining as a member of the Faculty Board.

• Date

  03 March 2025

• Start time

  19:00

• Places left

  197

Online

Creative Writing - March 2025

Writing has been proven to boost your immune system and reduce stress. These stand-alone sessions will provide both engagement and escape, as you find words, voice and encouragement from others. These sessions will employ creative writing techniques and responses to texts, quotes and images to support your wellbeing.

• Date

  03 March 2025

• Start time

  19:30

• Places left

  5

Zoom

AKT Preparation Course

This one-day interactive course has been designed for those planning to take the AKT component of the MRCGP. It will assist with your exam preparation and revision for the MRCGP AKT examination, focusing on high yield and difficult curriculum topics, including the topics trainees often forget to include in their revision and help with your exam technique.

• Date

  04 March 2025

• Start time

  09:00

• Places left

  80