Red Whale

Medical education for primary care. Online courses from our award-winning webinar studio. GP Update, Women's Health, Mental Health, MSK and Cancer.

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!

04/09/2025

Safety-netting is an essential consultation tool we can use to manage our patients safely, while acknowledging the uncertainty that exists and communicating this clearly. It can also help us as clinicians to manage our own uncertainty, and the impact carrying this over multiple consultations can have on us. So, this month, we want to share a GPST Pearl on safety-netting in primary care. It’s about a ten-minute read: https://hubs.li/Q03GRrLC0

28/08/2025

When NICE updated its menopause guidance in 2024, it recommended CBT as one tool to support women experiencing menopausal symptoms. This received mixed reception from celebrities and the media. In this week’s Pearl, we take a look at the evidence supporting CBT for menopause symptoms, the potential benefits and possible access issues – then you can make up your own mind! https://hubs.li/Q03DNZxB0

25/08/2025

Coming up on the 26th September, our brand new course- Obesity medicine: weight management, GLP-1s and beyond…
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.
Book your place now here https://hubs.li/Q03DN-KJ0

23/08/2025

Our content is made by clinicians, for clinicians. And that's why we offer things like our free Pearls- we want to make our primary care colleagues' lives easier with practical advice for your consultations and summaries of important changes to evidence and guidelines! https://hubs.li/Q03DN_TR0

21/08/2025

NICE produced updated guidance on nutrition and weight management in pregnancy earlier this year. In this week’s Pearl, we share all. https://hubs.li/Q03DNVs20

15/08/2025

It's getting hot in here... hyperhidrosis. And hepatitis C: curable in more than 95% of affected individuals Join the Red Whale team for a relaxed round up of this month's Red Whale primary care Pearls of wisdom! Available here, or anywhere you usually get your podcasts! https://hubs.li/Q03CTS300

14/08/2025

Depending where we live and work, we are all at different stages of preparing for the return to school. So, for this week’s Pearl, we wanted to share our article on emotionally-based school avoidance (previously less-helpfully called ‘school refusal’) so that we are prepared with key information if questions come our way. https://hubs.li/Q03CKNj40

08/08/2025

We are back with a brand new Podcast episode, recapping our July Pearls. At Red Whale we try to bring you up to date information on the real issues which might be hitting practices all over the country...so of course, we're talking about GLP-1s! Find our podcast here https://hubs.li/Q03BWBzd0 or wherever you get your podcasts!

07/08/2025

Gonorrhoea infections have doubled over the past decade, and it is now the second most common STI in the UK. This week, the BBC reported that the UK ‘gonorrhoea vaccine’ became widely available through sexual health services from Monday 4 August. Our article might help with any questions you get! https://hubs.li/Q03BvBCH0

05/08/2025

Whatever you need to know, we've (almost certainly) got you covered with Red Whale Unlimited! Wouldn't it be nice to have a knowledgeable friend by your side in practice to give you a confidence boost? Perhaps a resource that covers over 96% of the RCGP curriculum, is quick and easy to search, and offers you easy to digest, practical help when you are in surgery? With Red Whale Unlimited that's exactly what you get. Plus, unlimited access to ALL of our online courses and over 300 mini video bytes. You'll be sorted for CPD, and have a new best friend in practice! https://hubs.li/Q03BhY9L0

31/07/2025

For women who choose to breastfeed, mastitis can be painful and unwelcome, and they often seek our advice and support – but are we offering the right information? In this week’s Pearl to support World Breastfeeding Week, we are sharing our article on The mastitis spectrum https://hubs.li/Q03zKtvL0

29/07/2025

Every week there seems to be a headline about new weight‑loss drugs or fresh obesity guidelines. It’s exciting, but it can also feel exhausting if you’re trying to keep up to date, and apply your knowledge. We decided to curate the Red Whale 'Obesity medicine: weight management, GLP-1s and beyond' course because it cuts through the noise. It’s not just theory... it’s hands‑on, practical, evidence‑driven, and it’s taught by people who are in the trenches doing this work every day https://hubs.li/Q03zh5pH0

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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.