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Primary Care Masterclasses: the next event and the past ones

Face-to-face clinical-update meetings, led by Prof Rajesh Varma with invited specialist faculty. Free to delegates; any sponsorship is declared on the event page.

The next masterclass Past events Sponsor register

Next

30 Jan 2027

Herts Heart Failure Masterclass

Format

In person

UK only

CPD

Stated

On each event page

Faculty

Director-led

With invited specialists

Fee

Free

Registration required

1 · Who it is for

GPs, trainees, pharmacists and advanced practitioners

GPs, GP trainees, prescribing pharmacists, advanced clinical practitioners and interested secondary-care colleagues across the UK. Face-to-face, in the UK, free to attend; registration required.

4 · The award

Certificate of Completed Educational Activity. This course is credited with 6 CPD credits by New Vision University (UK Faculty).

4b · Who conducts it, and who awards

This educational activity is conducted by MD Acumen. MD Acumen Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16538952). MD Acumen is not an awarding body.

New Vision University, an international medical school listed on WDOMS, endorses this programme and verifies that the educational content and governance align with standard UK CPD guidelines. This course is credited with 6 CPD credits.

Masterclass meetings are organised in line with the ABPI Code of Practice. All sponsors are named in the programme. Pharmaceutical sponsors do not influence the educational content or speaker selection, and are acting strictly as third-party sponsors. No promotional sessions are included in the educational credit calculations.

The next masterclass

Saturday 30 January 2027

Masterclasses

Herts Heart Failure Masterclass

Saturday 30 January 2027, 09:00 to 14:30, Elstree. Six CPD credits; free; registration required.

Programme, faculty and venue

Further dates are announced here once the venue and the programme are confirmed.

6 · Sponsorship

No sponsorship agreement is in place for the next masterclass as at 18 October 2026. Sponsorship, if any, applies to the delivery costs of the masterclass only; the agenda, the content, the speakers and the materials are MD Acumen's. No attendee data goes to a sponsor without the delegate's explicit consent.

When an agreement is signed this declaration reads: "This masterclass has received sponsorship from [Company] in the form of [an educational grant towards venue and livestreaming costs]. [Company] has had no input into the agenda, the content, the speakers or the materials, which remain the responsibility and copyright of MD Acumen Ltd." The sponsor register is updated within seven days.

Independence

ABPI Code and the sponsor register

Meetings are run to the ABPI Code. Where an industry-sponsored symposium features, its sponsorship is declared in the programme and separated from the independent educational sessions. See the Sponsor Disclosure Register.

Past events

Programmes delivered

Primary Care Masterclass, Saturday 25 April 2026 (delivered)

A full-day update across UK primary care, with a Certificate of Professional Learning Activity issued to delegates.

Primary Care Masterclass, Saturday 25 April 2026 (delivered)
TimeSessionNotes
09:30Ozempic: bridging clinical evidence with 2026 NG28Industry-sponsored symposium; sponsorship disclosed in the programme
10:00Achieving LDL-C of 1.4 mmol/L or belowLipid optimisation to the ESC/EAS 2025 target
10:45Interpreting ECGs in primary careStructured twelve-lead read
11:15Setting up your CVRM clinicUK GP-partnership operationalisation
12:35Chest pain and cardiac imaging made simpleThe primary-care chest-pain pathway
13:05Menopause and HRT: precision prescribingNICE NG23; BMS HRT guidance; WHI age-stratified re-analysis
13:35Case reports (part 1): men's health and insomniaSenior-GP-level interactive panel
14:25Dermatology: spot-diagnosis quizCommon and most-missed presentations
14:55Back pain: myths, imaging and referralRed flags; the imaging-overuse trap; referral framework
15:25Case reports (part 2): COPD and migraineSenior-GP-level interactive panel
15:40Plenary, feedback and certificatesClose and certificate distribution

Primary Care Symposium, Saturday 22 November 2025 (inaugural)

The first all-day meeting in the series: eight topic areas across primary and secondary care, run to the ABPI Code, for UK-registered healthcare professionals.

  1. Lipids
  2. Type 2 diabetes
  3. Chronic kidney disease
  4. Migraine
  5. Insomnia
  6. Menopause
  7. COPD
  8. Real-life clinical cases

Archived programmes are retained for reference. Certificates were issued to delegates at each event.

8 · What changed this month

The living curriculum, in public

Guidance is watched for change; when a cornerstone guideline moves, the affected teaching is reviewed, re-signed and re-dated by a named clinician.

Each entry names the module, the change, the signer and the date. The list is read from the learning platform; where it cannot load, see the change log.

Questions receive a personal response from Prof Rajesh Varma: enquiry@mdacumen.com.

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