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Autistic Spectrum Conditions

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The RCGP's Autism in General Practice online course enables you to improve the care you and your practice provide for patients with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC). Using video clips of real patients and carers recounting their experiences, this course helps you to understand the challenges that people with ASC face on a daily basis.

Although focused primarily on caring for adults, this course explores the crucial role of the GP and primary health care team in the diagnosis and management of ASC at all ages, from childhood to old age.

This course has been funded by an educational grant from the Department of Health's Autism Strategy Team.

This course is FREE to RCGP members and GP registrars. 

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Curriculum: Children and Young People, Leadership and Management, Mental Health
CPD Points: 2.5
Time to complete this course: 150 minutes
Date of publication: 15 May 2011
Reviewed and updated: 4 December 2025
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Lifestyle medicine 2026 | One Day Essentials | REWIND

This is a recording of a live conference that took place on 23 April 2026. This recording will be available to view until 21 January 2026.

Lifestyle medicine is a global medical discipline, teaching clinicians behavioural techniques to support patients with some of the root causes of ill health. These include assessing and addressing financial stress, poor mental wellbeing, social isolation, inactivity, poor quality food, poor sleep/shift work and harmful substances or behaviours such as smoking, alcohol, vaping and harmful tech use. Lifestyle medicine provides one-to-one assessment and support but requires wider public health population level interventions. The aim of these interventions is to prevent, treat and potentially reverse ill health whilst minimising the need for long-term medications.

The RCGP have analysed feedback following the overwhelming success of the first Lifestyle medicine ODE in April 2025 to develop a more rounded understanding of the subject area. This One Day Essentials Lifestyle medicine conference will describe lifestyle medicine practice and how it is applied in everyday clinical practice for GPs. The conference will cover the RCGP GP with extended role in lifestyle medicine pathway, the evidence for lifestyle medicine and where it sits with population and public health, how this practice can be used to reduce health inequity, avoid over-diagnosis and over-prescribing.

This year’s focus is on how to help people to improve sleep, reduce loneliness and isolation, address tech harms in particular amongst children.

Learning objectives:

  • Define lifestyle medicine
  • Describe how public health and population health interventions can be complemented by lifestyle medicines one-to-one support
  • List the evidence for lifestyle medicine interventions, particularly for child health
  • Develop skills to assess and intervene around the pillars of lifestyle medicine in particular around social isolation, tech harms and sleep
  • Describe how lifestyle medicine can be used to address inequity
  • List how lifestyle medicine can improve sustainable practice
  • Describe how art and time in nature can improve health outcomes

Topics: 

  • What is lifestyle medicine and introduction to RCGP GP with extended role in lifestyle medicine
  • The evidence for lifestyle medicine and how it works with public and population health
  • Lifestyle medicine is sustainable medicine and can improve planetary health
  • Social prescribing, green space, art, sleep interventions and reducing harms from tech including social media
  • Lifestyle medicine and health inequalities
  • Interactive session sharing practical tips on how to fit a lifestyle assessment into a short consultation

Conference chair:

Dr Ellen Fallows, GP and expert in obesity and lifestyle medicine

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Category: One Day Essentials REWIND
Curriculum: Population Health
CPD Points: 6.5
Time to complete this course: 6-7 hours
Date of publication: 23 April 2026
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Child health | One Day Essentials | REWIND

This is a recording of a live conference that took place on 22 January 2026. This recording will be available to view until 16 November 2026.

Children and young people make up 25% of consultations in primary care. Amongst the simple and straightforward, there are some complexities and conditions that need careful thought and care. As a GP you are brilliantly placed to support children and young people in every crucial stage of their development, both through the direct care you provide them and the family-centred approaches you take around population health and improving health equity. With the help of an expert group of clinicians, all of whom work in hospital childrens services but with experience of working in partnership with colleagues in primary care, we will equip you to better manage conditions in primary care and to diagnose and treat common childhood illness along with appropriately managing more challenging or complex cases that can come up in children and young people. 

Learning objectives:

  • Strengthen skills in recognising and diagnosing a broad range of conditions commonly seen in children and young people
  • Increase confidence using the latest evidence in treating key common conditions in children and young people
  • Broaden skills in working in partnership with local and specialist paediatricians in managing some of the more challenging or complex cases that can come up in children and young people

Topics: 

  • Eczema
  • Asthma
  • Cow's milk protein intolerance
  • ADHD and Autism
  • Adolescent gynaecology
  • Vaccine preventable diseases

Conference co-chairs:

Dr Sharon Jheeta, Consultant Paediatrician, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 

Dr Bob Klaber, Consultant Paediatrician & Director of Strategy, Research & Innovation, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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Category: One Day Essentials REWIND
Curriculum: Children and Young People
CPD Points: 6.0
Time to complete this course: 6-7 hours
Date of publication: 22 January 2026
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Neurodevelopmental health | One Day Essentials | REWIND

 

This is a recording of a live conference that took place on 16 October 2025. This recording will be available to view until 21 July 2026.

GPs play a crucial role in the lifelong care of patients, including those with neurodivergent conditions. Neurodiversity is a common aspect of human variation, with over 15% of the UK population being neurodivergent. This conference aims to highlight that neurodiversity is everyone's business. Neurodivergence affects individuals of all ages and impacts both mental and physical health, influencing morbidity and mortality across all organ systems. Our goal is to provide insights into the challenges faced by the neurodivergent population in a predominantly neurotypical world and to equip GPs with practical strategies to improve health outcomes and access to care.

Topics include:

  • Autism and AuDHD
  • Gender differences with people who present as neurodivergent
  • Nonpharmacological treatments and support for neurodivergent people
  • Autism and pathological demand avoidance
  • Tics and tourette’s
  • Overlaps of neurodiversity with other conditions (e.g. obsessive compulsive disorder, trauma)
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders in old age

Conference Chair:

  • Dr Heidi Phillips MRCGP, Neurodevelopmental Specialist GP, RCGP Clinical Advisor for neurodiversity 

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Category: One Day Essentials REWIND
Curriculum: Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Intellectual and Social Disability
CPD Points: 6.5
Time to complete this course: 6-7 hours
Date of publication: 12 September 2025
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