44th Annual General Practice and Primary Care Update | Prevention, Evidence-Based Practice & Healthcare Technology

Date and time Wed 24 Sep 2025 from 8:30am to 26 Sep 2025 at 5:00pm
Location Royal Society of Medicine
Organised by General Practice with Primary Healthcare

Join this three-day event designed to equip primary care professionals with up-to-date clinical knowledge, practical skills, and strategic insights through interactive, evidence-based sessions.

Led by expert speakers including Professor Tim Spector and Dr Rupal Shah, the programme covers key topics including:

Population health and prevention: Exploring health inequalities, data-driven health interventions and world leading innovative, personalised measures, that empower individuals
Mental health in primary care: Adult ADHD, youth self-harm, women’s mental health, and psychiatric medication management.
Dermatology and minor surgery: Examining the worlds first -Autonoumous Skin Analytics, to surgical skills for GPs developing a special interest.
Technology and AI developments in primary care: Evaluating AI tools, remote monitoring, and digital dermatology.
Cardiovascular innovations and women’s health: Addressing lipid management, and emerging female health priorities.
Patient perspectives: Reporting of the patient views in primary care in 2025?
Musculoskeletal and paediatric issues: Practical strategies for managing common joint and limb conditions.

By attending this event, you will:

Understand emerging trends and personalised approaches in preventive care and patient empowerment
Improve primary care management of mental health across all age groups and genders
Discover how cutting-edge digital tools and AI can enhance diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment in general practice
Gain practical, evidence-based knowledge in minor surgery, dermatology, and musculoskeletal care
Address contemporary challenges in women's health and cardiovascular disease through multidisciplinary approaches

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Consultant / GP / SAS Doctors

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AHP / Nurse / Midwife

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Trainee

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Student

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View the programme - Day 1

Day 1

8:30am

Registration, tea and coffee

Session 1: Preventive medicine and population health theme

Chair: Dr Monica Krivcevska

9:10am

President's address

Mrs Susan Strong, President, General Practice with Primary Healthcare Section

9:10am

Population Health

Speaker to be confirmed

9:50am

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed

10:30am

Tea and coffee break

Session 2

Chair: Dr Monica Krivcevska

11:00am

Theme: Alcohol and Drugs

Jeff Fernandes

11:40am

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tim Spector, Co-Founder, ZOE and Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London

12:20pm

Lunch

Session 3 : Mental health theme

Chair to be confirmed

1:20pm

Theme: Adult ADHD

Khurram Saadiq

2:00pm

Title to be confirmed

Professor Dennis Ougrin

2:40pm

Tea and coffee break

Session 4:

Chair to be confirmed

3:10pm

Theme: Psych-med in hospitals

Dr Tanya Deb

3:50pm

Theme: Women psych-med in primary care

Dr Kat Peebles

4:30pm

Close of meeting

View the programme - Day 2

Day 2

8:30am

Registration, tea and coffee

Session 1: Minor surgery and dermatology theme

Chair to be confirmed

9:00am

Theme: Skin infections

Dr Rachel Morris Jones

9:45am

Theme: Skin cancer

Dr Dev Shah

10:30am

Tea and coffee break

Session 2

Chair to be confirmed

11:00am

Theme: General Practitioner with a Special Interest - Surgery

Dr Soon Lim

11:45am

Theme: General Practitioner with a Special Interest

Dr Gareth James

12:30pm

Lunch

Session 3: CAIPE and John Fry Prize

Chair to be confirmed

1:30pm

John Fry Prize topic discussion and poster prizes - AI in primary care: friend or foe

2:00pm

CAIPE

2:45pm

Tea and coffee break

Session 4: Orthopaedic, Musculoskeletal, Paediatric

Chair to be confirmed

3:00pm

What to do about knee osteoarthritis: Examination and management, best evidence long term

Dr Sol Abrahams

3:45pm

T&O surgeon: Common problems of lower limbs in children

Mr Khaled Sarraf

4:30pm

Close of meeting

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Day 3

8:30am

Registration, tea and coffee

Session 1: Digital health

Chair to be confirmed

9:00am

Theme: AI

Dennis Wait

9:45am

Expanding the remit of remote monitoring in primary care through the Ortus-Ihealth platform

Dr Alexander Deighton

10:30am

Tea and coffee break

Session 2

Chair to be confirmed

11:00am

Digital Health: The worlds first autonomous skin cancer detection AI

Skin Analytics

11:40am

Lipids app

Branimir Nevajda

12:25pm

Lunch

Session 3: Hot topics and cardiology

Chair to be confirmed

1:25pm

Theme: Women's health

Inna Vardi-Flynn

2:05pm

Theme: Cardiovascular disease, lipids management

Alison Pottle, Cardiology Nurse Consultant

2:45pm

Patient perspective

Speaker to be confirmed

3:30pm

Tea and coffee break

Session 4

Chair to be confirmed

4:00pm

Title to be confirmed

Pfizer speaker

4:30pm

Fireside chat

Dr Rupal Shah

5:00pm

Closing remarks

Registration for this event will close on 26 September 2025 at 8:00am (BST). Late registrations will not be accepted.

The agenda is subject to change at any time.

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion.

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.

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