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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!
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
13/10/2025
Join the Red Whale team for a relaxed round up of this month's Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom. This month, we discuss Asthma: the autumn spike. There is a significant increase in asthma admissions that occurs each autumn in the UK, particularly impacting children and young people. We can help prevent this by ensuring every person living with asthma has a personalised asthma action plan, appropriate prevention treatment, annual review AND review after every exacerbation https://hubs.li/Q03NkjbP0
08/10/2025
It’s the end of a long clinic, and what is waiting? Test result administration – a significant cognitive load at the end of the day. We sometimes find ourselves wondering why we requested the test in the first place! We often hear from GP registrars that interpreting LFTs is one of the trickier tests to deal with. So, in this month’s trainee Pearl, we want to share our Liver Disease GEMS https://hubs.li/Q03MJWpy0
02/10/2025
This week's Pearl is about managing menopause after a diagnosis of breast cancer. Women in this situation will commonly seek our advice. Conflicting media coverage over the safety of different menopause treatment options after breast cancer have created a recipe for confusion and frustration for patients and clinicians alike https://hubs.ly/Q03LV1YJ0
01/10/2025
There's a new course in town... Launching 7 Nov - pre order now!
✨ Menopause Masterclass ✨
If you have a good working knowledge of menopause management and are looking for a deeper understanding of more complex and challenging scenarios - then this course is for you!
And that’s a wrap on our first ever live hosted ‘Obesity Medicine: Weight Management, GLP-1s and Beyond’ course! We had some fantastic discussions on the live chat today, and we really do hope you got a lot from the course! Are you currently working in obesity medicine? You can watch the course on demand now! https://hubs.li/Q03L9zr20 🩺
26/09/2025
It's time for a break now, and if you've ever been to one of our live courses you'll be familiar with our caption competition! Why not have a shot of this one? 🍵
26/09/2025
📽️One of the polls from our live course today -
Is BMI more likely to overestimate or underestimate excess adiposity in patients?
⬆️Overestimate
⬇️Underestimate
↔️Similar proportion over and underestimated
What do you think?
26/09/2025
Have you joined us for the launch of the Obesity Medicine: Weight Management, GLP-1s and Beyond course today? Let us know if you've joined us! Great discussions in the live chat already about how to help those living with obesity in areas of social deprivation, and how important it is to reframe the narrative away from shame 🧠
26/09/2025
Today is the day... launch of our newest course, Obesity Medicine: Weight Management, GLP-1s and Beyond! We'll be live at 9.30am (watch our instagram stories for some behind the scenes!) and the course is also available on demand now! Keen to get involved? Book your place here https://hubs.li/Q03L6htk0
25/09/2025
The schools are back and with that.. comes the back to school illnesses. Do you need to brush up on your chickenpox knowledge? This week's Pearl is for you! https://hubs.li/Q03KY4sZ0
25/09/2025
Launching live online tomorrow, there's still time to book your place on our brand new 'Obesity Medicine: Weight Management, GLP-1s and Beyond' course!
Our one-day online Obesity medicine course will help you transform your practice and patient outcomes in this fast-evolving field of medicine. Learn about the latest in holistic obesity management and treatment strategies, and discover innovative, evidence-based methods to enable us to offer better patient care and improved outcomes.
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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.
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!
