Red Whale – training for Primary Care Practitioners

Red Whale is one of the UK's leading medical education providers, delivering high quality training and resources to around 30,000 primary care colleagues each year.

Online and face to face, Red Whale courses are varied, engaging, and suitable for GPs and all clinicians within primary care. Read more about Red Whale here.

Think Active has secured a licence to offer local primary care practitioners FREE access to the Red Whale Lifestyle Medicine resources.

Physical Activity Bytes (videos):

  • Physical Activity in Type 2 Diabetes (8mins)
  • Promoting Physical Activity: WhaleART (3mins)
  • Physical Activity: Types and Benefits (5mins)
  • Physical Activity: Reframing the Conversation (21mins)
  • Physical Activity: Health Inequalities (25mins)**
  • Physical Activity: Active Transport (5mins)
  • Physical Activity: A Collaborative Approach (18mins)**
  • Physical Activity with Long-Term Health Conditions (6mins)
  • Gamification and Physical Activity (23mins)
  • Motivating Behaviour Change (15mins)

**Featuring Think Active

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In addition to the Physical Activity video bytes, there is also access to a catalogue of free bytes and articles on a range of medical topics. Continuous professional development (CPD) activity can also be logged and downloaded.

Cost: FREE for Think Active primary care community

Duration: Variable

Access: To access the resources, practitioners must create a free Red Whale account. In addition, please submit a sign-up form to Think Active to receive a discount code for your registration – click here to complete the form.

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email to hello@thinkactive.org