Courses for the RCGP
Prof Rajesh Varma convenes and delivers national continuing-professional-development courses for the Royal College of General Practitioners — the professional membership body for general practice in the United Kingdom. Two RCGP courses feature in the current programme: the Menopause Update webinar, delivered in July 2026, and an online Migraine Masterclass on Saturday 5 September 2026, delivered as a two-hour webinar, 09:30–11:30 (BST). Both courses have now taken place.
Last editorial review: 5 September 2026 · Next scheduled refresh: 11 April 2027 · Both courses were official RCGP events, with programmes and delegate administration managed by the College.
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Menopause and perimenopause, including premature ovarian insufficiency
Knowledge Green · Evidence Green · Real-world Red
Not yet at the Equinox · UK (NHS England) · as of 7 October 2026 · How the triangle works
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Migraine (uncomplicated)
Knowledge Green · Evidence Green · Real-world Amber
Not yet at the Equinox · UK (NHS England) · as of 7 October 2026 · How the triangle works
National teaching, delivered through the College
To convene a course for the Royal College of General Practitioners is to teach at the centre of the profession: courses are commissioned by the College, quality-assured within its professional-development programme, and opened to general practitioners and primary care clinicians nationally. Prof Varma convenes and delivers two such courses in the current RCGP programme — the Menopause Update, delivered as a national webinar in July 2026, and the forthcoming online Migraine Masterclass webinar this September — each built on the same standard that underpins MD Acumen's own postgraduate teaching: current evidence, precise clinical reasoning, and learning a working clinician can apply in the next consultation.
Both courses below were official RCGP events and have now been delivered: the Menopause Update on Monday 6 July 2026 and the Migraine Masterclass on Saturday 5 September 2026. The College's official listing for the Menopause Update remains on its events platform as a record of the course.
Menopause Update: HRT Precision & Holistic Management
A national RCGP webinar on precision HRT prescribing and holistic, whole-person menopause management — convened and delivered by Prof Rajesh Varma.
Menopause consultations have become some of the most demanding in general practice: patients arrive better informed and more divided guidance-wise than ever, and the prescribing decisions — regimen, route, dose, duration — carry long-term consequences. Convened and delivered for the RCGP as a live national webinar on Monday 6 July 2026, this update took delegates beyond one-size HRT towards precision prescribing and holistic management.
| Course | Menopause Update: HRT Precision & Holistic Management — an official RCGP CPD webinar |
| Status | Delivered — Monday 6 July 2026, live national webinar |
| Convenor | Prof Rajesh Varma — convenor and lead presenter |
| Audience | GPs, GP registrars and primary care clinicians managing menopause |
This course has been delivered; the listing remains on the RCGP events platform as the College's official record. Future editions will be announced on this page.
Migraine Masterclass — Online Webinar
A focused two-hour online webinar on the commonest neurological disorder in general practice, delivered on Saturday 5 September 2026.
Format update — August 2026: this course is now delivered as a two-hour online webinar on Saturday 5 September 2026, 09:30–11:30 (BST), replacing the previously advertised four-hour in-person interactive session.
Migraine affects millions in the UK, yet much of it remains undiagnosed, under-treated, or managed on repeat prescriptions that no longer serve the patient — at a time when the therapeutic landscape is moving faster than at any point in a generation. Convened and delivered for the RCGP by Prof Rajesh Varma, this two-hour online masterclass webinar on Saturday 5 September 2026, 09:30–11:30 (BST) equips primary care clinicians to diagnose migraine with confidence and treat it to modern standards.
| Course | Migraine Masterclass — a two-hour online official RCGP CPD webinar |
| When | Saturday 5 September 2026 · 09:30–11:30 (BST) — two hours |
| Format | Online webinar (two hours) |
| Audience | GPs, GP registrars and primary care clinicians |
Download the Migraine Masterclass slides
The complete slide deck from the RCGP Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Faculty Migraine Masterclass webinar of Saturday 5 September 2026, presented by Prof Rajesh Varma (Chair), Dr Deborah Kerr and Dr Sanjeev Rana. Fifty-seven slides in six parts — diagnosis; mimics and medication-overuse headache; red flags and imaging; hormones and life stages; acute treatment; and prevention and referral pathways — aligned to NICE, MHRA, BASH and HWE guidance, with medicines discussed by generic name.
Shared for the personal educational use of delegates. The webinar was a non-promotional educational meeting with no industry funding, sponsorship or input.
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Convened & delivered by Prof Rajesh Varma
Prof Rajesh Varma is a professor of primary care and a practising NHS general practitioner in Hertfordshire. He is a GP Trainer and Convenor for GP Trainers, West Hertfordshire, a former examiner for the GMC PLAB examination, and the founder of the MD Acumen School of Postgraduate Medicine — whose postgraduate teaching spans diabetes–cardiorenal–metabolic medicine, menopause and andropause, and headache medicine.
His RCGP courses carry the same signature as his academic work: precise, guideline-current clinical teaching, delivered for the realities of the ten-minute consultation.
Relationship & scope. The two courses on this page are official events of the Royal College of General Practitioners, convened and delivered for the College by Prof Rajesh Varma; the RCGP owns their programmes, booking and delegate administration. MD Acumen Ltd is an independent educational organisation — its own programmes and awards are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or delivered on behalf of the RCGP.
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