Event Recap: Cardiovascular Webinar Series
Cardiovascular Health for primary care staff
This series of webinars on cardiovascular topics is for NCL primary care staff and will be held from September 2026 until Summer 2027. All webinars will be delivered by Dr. Yassir Javaid: Clinical Subject Matter Expert (GP with a specialist interest in cardiology).
Dr Javaid qualified from Cambridge University and completed his VTS training in Northampton. He has a specialist interest in cardiology and echocardiography and was a clinical lead in the Northamptonshire Community Cardiology service, which had a focus on patients with heart failure and valve disease. He was also the primary care Cardiovascular lead for the East Midlands Clinical Network from 2013-2020. He was named Pulse “GP of the Year” in 2015 for his work in reducing stroke emergency admissions in the East Midlands. He is on the editorial board for the British Journal of Cardiology and a trustee of Heart Valve Voice.
All sessions can be booked using this link
(Note: Please ensure you are logged into the NCL TH website to view the resources and recordings from the sessions)
Session 1: Modern Management of Heart Failure in Primary Care
Details:
The management of heart failure has evolved considerable over the past few years and this session will get you up to speed with the relevant evidence and guidance from a primary care perspective. It will cover key aspects of establishing a diagnosis including the differential diagnosis and aetiology.
There will also be a masterclass on ECG interpretation relevant to heart failure patients. The webinar will cover key aspects of the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management to both HFrEF and HFpEF and include therapies beyond the 4 pillars and in particular the role of device therapy.
(Resources linked below)
Session 2: Chest Pain Differentials Angina and Lipids
Date & Time: Tuesday 1st December 2026, 12:30 - 2 pm.
Details:
This session will focus on the following:
- Differentiating cardiac from non-cardiac chest pain
- The pillars of modern secondary prevention including an update on modern lipid modification
- How to manage anti-anginal therapy in primary care and who needs revascularisation – the merits of CABG vs PCI
- Antiplatelet therapy in coronary disease – what happens when patients also get AF?
Session 3: Making sense of the 12 lead ECG in Primary Care: How to get it right every time
Date & Time: Tuesday 12th January 2027, 12:30 - 2 pm.
Details:
This session will focus on the following:
- Introduce a simple framework to learn the ECG as a language rather than pattern recognition
- Assessing the rhythm
- Bradycardia – when to worry about it and identifying heart block
- ECGs in ischaemia
- Making sense of tachycardias
- Identifying LVH on an ECG
Details of further sessions scheduled in 2027 will be advertised in due course.
If there are any queries, please contact Enfield Training Hub at wnlicb.enfieldtraininghub@nhs.net