Essential Knowledge Updates and Challenges
Essential Knowledge Updates, Challenges and Hot Topics
The Essential Knowledge Update (EKU) Programme takes practitioners through new and changing knowledge relating to key clinical areas and best practice in primary care. Designed to support GPs with their CPD and revalidation, the EKU Programme resources enable GPs to apply and assimilate this new information within their day to day practice, assess their existing knowledge and highlight their learning and service needs.
Please note: Essential Knowledge Updates and Challenges 1 to 18 have been archived and are no longer accessible to users. This is due to the content being live for more than ten years, the modules no longer being updated and the software used within them becoming incompatible/inaccessible.
Essential Knowledge Updates
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Essential Knowledge Challenges
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NEW: March 2026 End-of-Month EKU Hot Topic
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NICE Guidance Updates
Exclusive to RCGP members, the following resources are based on new/updated NICE guidance and focus on the most important changes for all members of the primary care team.
Antibiotic prescribing changes for pneumonia in children
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Abortion in primary care
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Asthma: updates to diagnosis and treatment
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EKU Programme Podcasts
Please find below the most recent EKU Programme Podcasts.
Respiratory tract infections
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Diagnosis and management of irritable bowel syndrome in primary care
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