Red Whale Primary Care Pod

Send us a text Grab your trainers, your dog lead or a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom.  June was another bumper month of information, meaning that we can’t possibly squeeze it all into one handy sized episode, so in the first of two episodes this month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Curable: hepatitis C and the...

Send us a text Grab your trainers, your dog lead or a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. There was so much information in the Pearls that we released over the 5 weeks of May that we’ve realised that we can’t possibly squeeze it all into one handy sized episode, so in the second of two episodes this month, Nik a...

Send us a text Grab your trainers, your dog lead or a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. There was so much information in the Pearls that we released over the 5 weeks of May that we’ve realised that we can’t possibly squeeze it all into one handy sized episode, so in the first of two episodes this month, Nik an...

Send us a text Grab your trainers, your dog lead or a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Acute prostatitis: is it the last stand for the floxacins?! Adenomyosis: demystifying the condition behind the headlines. How would you diagnose it? A diagnosis no one wants to miss… c...

Send us a text Grab your trainers, your dog lead or a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Acute aortic dissection. What would you do if you suspected it? The limping child. Who goes in to hospital? Who might be able to be managed in primary care? Soluble tablets. Are you aw...

Send us a text Grab your trainers, your dog lead or a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Recent changes with progestogen-only pills. How is the new POP different from the others? Erectile dysfunction, and what is Eroxon? The available evidence and guidelines regarding meas...

Send us a text Grab a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Actively beating the new year blues. How can we build conversations about physical activity into our consultations?  Scabies surge: how do you spot it and manage it? (And can you get hold of the treatments?!) His hea...

Send us a text Grab a cuppa and join us for some free CPD as we have another relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Galleri: will this blood test revolutionise cancer diagnosis? We review the evidence behind it and ask: How effective is it when cancer is suspected, and how effective is it for population screening?   Sore throat an...

Send us a text Join us for a relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Healthy ageing: adding quality to years? What does ‘healthy ageing’ look like? What are the 3 trajectories of ageing? How can we work as a primary care team to promote the basics that increase the chance of healthier ageing? Preventing breast cancer: what’s our ro...

Send us a text Join us for a relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  HRT for primary prevention? About 25% of menopausal-age women have no symptoms and so do not require HRT to treat vasomotor or other hormone-related issues. However, they may be influenced by media messages suggesting that HRT could be used to prevent certain chro...

Send us a text Join us for a relaxed round up of recent Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  GLP-1 mimetics shortages: tackling drug swaps. The headline grabbing GLP-1 mimetics are rarely out of the news- most recently due to supply issues for people with type 2 diabetes. How do we deal with this? Tics and Tourette’s syndrome: spotting them in primary car...

Send us a text Join us for a relaxed round up of this month’s Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Bites: human, animal and insect. It’s still that time of year when the triage list is full of: Bite ? Infected . We look at all things bite related including assessment, management and who needs antibiotics. DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis: what is it and why we...

Send us a text Join us for a relaxed round up of this month’s Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, Nik and Caroline discuss:  Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: one child in every class at school is potentially affected and unsupported. What can we do about this, and why is discussing alcohol in pregnancy a taboo? Varicella zoster (chicken pox) and NSAIDs: why we shouldn’t be recomme...