In 2007 two practising GPs had a dream of helping themselves and their colleagues by taking CPD from a tick box exercise to a practical tool that could really help day to day practice. They talked to a frustrated accountant who wanted to make a difference in the world. The three clinked their mugs over the kitchen table and ‘GP Update’ was born.
Over 15 years later, a new name, 50 team members and over 25,000 primary care clinicians trained each year, Red Whale still has its roots firmly around that kitchen table. The desire to be a force for good and the ethos that drove the trio to launch is still at the heart of our business today.
Our mission is to provide you with the best quality medical education in the UK – creating content that you can put into practice straight away, making your life a little bit easier and enabling you to provide your patients with the best care possible.
We try to offer products that respond to the different learning styles of all primary care clinicians, at different stages in their career; from our beloved handbooks to our flagship one day face to face update courses, to online courses, award winning webinars and online resources you can access 24/7.
And whilst we can’t promise to make the long days shorter, the dark days lighter or your appointment list any less crowded, we CAN promise that we will do some of the hard work for you, cutting through the clutter and producing relevant content and tools to help you deal with the challenges you face every day and save you time and energy.
The quality of our education is our guiding principle. We are far from perfect, but we will never knowingly let our standards drop. If we accidentally make a mistake (and we do make a few), we will tell you and apologise.
We hold our customers, colleagues, suppliers and environmental concerns at the forefront of every decision we make. We strive to do better by each and every one of our stakeholders, even when it costs us more to do so.
While all that might sound a bit serious, we never take ourselves too seriously, incorporating a good dose of humour in everything we do.
Oh, and you’ve probably heard us mention this before, but we will never ever EVER take pharmaceutical company sponsorship of any kind, no exhibitors, no pharma sponsored mail shots, not even a biscuit a pen or a sticky note! And we’re shamelessly proud of it!
We are a small, friendly team, and we always welcome constructive feedback and suggestions, or an opportunity to talk with you. Our office hours are Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm.
For information and course bookings
You can drop us an email at mail@red-whale.co.uk or phone us on 03330 093 090 (charged at the same rate as standard landline numbers starting with 01 or 02).
For postal booking forms, letters, cards and boxes of chocolates our address is:
Red Whale
University of Reading
Reading Enterprise Centre
Earley Gate
Whiteknights Road
Reading
RG6 6BU
Finally if you really can’t get enough of us you can like us of FB, follow us on Twitter and Linkedin and even subscribe to our (ever so popular) weekly updates!
FourteenFish
FourteenFish was started by a GP who was unhappy with the existing options for appraisal and re-validation. With an incredibly friendly system, mobile apps, and powerful features, FourteenFish makes preparing for your next appraisal so much easier. Red Whale Knowledge integrates seamlessly with FourteenFish to make recording CPD for your appraisal simple, so any updates you make to either Red Whale Knowledge or FourteenFish will automatically show up on both systems.
www.fourteenfish.com/
