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Acumen Focus modules and the Primary Care Masterclasses

Focused clinical modules for primary care: free, with an NVU (UK) CPD certificate; for GPs, GP trainees, clinical pharmacists and advanced clinical and nurse practitioners; written to the level 7 descriptors with optional stretch at level 8; the foundation for extended-scope and extended-role practice in the topic. And whole-day masterclasses with expert speakers, with an NVU (UK) CPD certificate for every event.

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Last editorial review: 11 October 2026 · Next scheduled refresh: 11 April 2027.

Acumen Focus Primary Care Masterclasses For training hubs, PCNs and employers
Acumen Focus

Acumen Focus

Free focused modules on one topic each: cardio-renal-metabolic medicine and heart failure; menopause and andropause; statistics; migraine; COPD; insomnia; screening for cancer. Each opens with a case and its Golden Triangle, tests you with confidence-rated questions, and ends with a practice task. Complete it and download your NVU (UK) CPD certificate; opt in and it stays a Living Certificate, re-dated after each signed update you work through. MRCGP AKT-ready · Primary Care HCP-ready: every item is tagged to the RCGP AKT curriculum and the GMC MLA content map, and a module carries the AKT-ready label only when at least 80% of its items are AKT-style single-best-answer questions.

F1 · Cardiometabolic risk beyond QRISK3

One pathophysiology, the CKM stages, ApoB and non-HDL, lipoprotein(a) once in a lifetime, coronary calcium and inflammation, and the KDIGO heat map as a risk tool. Ten-item knowledge check, numbered 1-CPD certificate. MRCGP AKT-ready · Primary Care HCP-ready.

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F2 · Lipids: statin-first to ApoB-target combination therapy

Targets, the ladder with its NICE gates, statin intolerance, triglycerides and icosapent ethyl, familial hypercholesterolaemia and Lp(a). Ten-item knowledge check, numbered 1-CPD certificate. MRCGP AKT-ready · Primary Care HCP-ready.

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F3 · Type 2 diabetes and cardiometabolic therapy

Therapy by organ protection, NICE NG28 (February 2026), the even-handed toolkit and the safety repertoire. Ten-item knowledge check, numbered 1-CPD certificate. MRCGP AKT-ready · Primary Care HCP-ready.

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F4 · Heart failure in primary care

The Herts Heart Failure Masterclass companion: diagnosis and coding, the four pillars, the ejection-fraction spectrum, devices and the CVRM-HF clinic. Ten-item knowledge check, numbered 1-CPD certificate. MRCGP AKT-ready · Primary Care HCP-ready.

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F5 · CKD and the cardiorenal axis

Finding and confirming CKD, the KDIGO heat map, RAAS blockade, SGLT2 inhibitors, finerenone, FLOW, the statin and the referral rules. Ten-item knowledge check, numbered 1-CPD certificate. MRCGP AKT-ready · Primary Care HCP-ready.

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F6 · Obesity, MASLD and inflammation; the proactive clinic

Obesity as a chronic disease, the anti-obesity toolkit, the MASLD pathway, the proactive cardiorenal-metabolic clinic and the special populations. Ten-item knowledge check, numbered 1-CPD certificate. MRCGP AKT-ready · Primary Care HCP-ready.

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Cardio-renal-metabolic medicine (CVRM-HF)

The original 2-hour micro-course: the safety repertoire, lipids, diabetes, the cardiorenal axis, obesity and MASLD. Being split into the six-module CVRM-HF Foundation series (F1–F6).

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Menopause and andropause

Assessment, hormone therapy by route and regimen, non-hormonal therapy, bone health, andropause.

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Primary Care Masterclasses

Primary Care Masterclasses

Whole-day, face-to-face events in conference facilities, with five or six expert speakers delivering updates to GPs, GP trainees, pharmacists, advanced clinical practitioners and advanced nurse practitioners. Multi-topic days, or focused days on cardio-renal-metabolic medicine and heart failure or on women’s health. NVU (UK) CPD certificate for every delegate. Any event sponsorship is declared on the event page under the ABPI Code.

Dates are read from the learning platform.

Primary Care Masterclasses

The programme and the next dates.

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Herts Heart Failure Masterclass, 30 January 2027

Programme, speakers, venue and booking.

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For training hubs, PCNs and employers

For training hubs, PCNs and employers

An institutional licence adds cohort reporting, a named contact and the right to embed the modules in your own platform. The modules stay free to every clinician.

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ICB and training-hub seats, institutional licences, medical-school modules.

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Where this rung sits

The same method runs from the first clinical year to advanced practice. Each rung builds on the one before.

← Before this: Training ⌂ All six rungs After this: Advanced →