CPD and educational engagement

1. Practice-meeting talks

Dr Tsang-Wright is happy to attend GP practice meetings — in person at the practice, or by video — to deliver a focused session on a topic of your choosing. Typical sessions run 30–45 minutes, with time for questions, and can be adapted to a specific case mix.

Recent topics that have worked well:

• Common breast presentations in primary care — what’s reassuring, what isn’t.
• Family history of breast cancer — recognising the patient who needs onward referral.
• Mastitis and breast abscess — when to push past simple antibiotics.
• Adolescent and young-adult breast assessment — managing parental concern alongside the clinical picture.
• Risk-reducing options for high-risk patients — a primary-care primer on BRCA and beyond.
• Reconstruction options after mastectomy — what to know when patients ask.

To arrange a practice-meeting talk, email [email protected] with your preferred dates and topic. Sessions are offered at no charge to the practice.

2. Case-discussion sessions

For practices interested in a more interactive format, case-discussion sessions take a small set of anonymised real cases (de-identified — no patient information) and work through them together. The format is collaborative rather than didactic and tends to surface the genuinely uncertain decisions in primary care, rather than the textbook answers.

These sessions work well in groups of 6–12 GPs, run for 60–90 minutes, and are best done in person.

3. Direct advice on individual cases

Outside of formal CPD, GPs are welcome to email or phone the practice PA with a clinical question about a specific presentation — when you are weighing whether to refer, or how urgently. Sarah will route these to Dr Tsang-Wright for a same-day or next-day reply, and a quick phone discussion can usually be arranged when needed.

This is intended for genuine clinical-judgement questions rather than routine triage; it is not a 24/7 service. But for the kind of presentation where a brief phone conversation with a specialist saves an unnecessary appointment for the patient, this informal route works well and is welcomed.

4. Written content and reading lists

The glossary on this site is written for patients, but several entries — particularly the procedure-focused ones — are also useful for primary-care colleagues looking for a quick refresher. Each entry carries the date of last clinical review.

A small number of GP-focused educational pieces will be added under the insights section over time, covering topics that come up repeatedly in primary-care discussions. These will be flagged as GP-facing where they appear.

Practice-meeting talks and case-discussion sessions can be logged for CPD credit by attending GPs as part of their annual revalidation, in line with RCGP guidance on internally-recorded learning. The practice does not accredit the sessions formally; the credit is logged on each GP’s individual ePortfolio in the usual way.

If your practice or training group has a specific accreditation requirement (for example, a structured PCT-level CPD programme), let us know — most can be supported with the appropriate documentation.

A recurring request is “what’s a good topic for our protected learning time on breast?” Here is a sample syllabus that adapts well to a 60-minute slot:

1. The 2-week-wait pathway and its limits (10 min) — what’s caught, what isn’t, and how primary care fits.
2. The five common presentations (20 min) — lump, pain, discharge, skin/nipple change, mastitis. The bedside features that change management.
3. Family history triage (10 min) — who needs onward genetic referral, who can be reassured.
4. Risk-reducing options (10 min) — what the surgical conversation actually looks like for high-risk patients.
5. Q&A and case discussion (10 min).

This can be adapted up or down — happy to focus a whole session on a single topic if that fits your practice better.

The simplest first step is to email [email protected] with:

• The kind of session you have in mind (practice talk, case discussion, or specific question).
• Approximate audience size and format (in-person at your practice, video, hybrid).
• Suggested dates and any topic preference.