Grünenthal Ltd has sponsored and funded a promotional 30-minute symposium at 20:15 during this event. Grünenthal’s involvement is limited exclusively to the 30-minute symposium and does not extend to any other part of the meeting.
Dr Chopra’s sessions are completely independent of external sponsorship.
Dizziness is an important and common presentation in primary care. We need to know how to approach a dizzy patient and the steps we need to take to diagnose and manage it.
Session 1 - Dr Rakesh Chopra
Sponsored Symposium Presentation by Grünenthal
Post-Herpetic Neuralgia: Practical Approaches to Diagnosis and Management in General Practice
Dr Stephen Longworth
MSc FRCGP FRACGP DM-SMed DPCR
This promotional symposium has been initiated and funded by Grünenthal for Healthcare Professionals in the UK.
M-LDO-UK-09-26-0003 | September 2026
Session 2 - Dr Rakesh Chopra
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Dr Rakesh Chopra Dr Rakesh Chopra is a nationally recognised teacher of ENT in Primary care. He is a GPwER for St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust/Knowsley and South Lakes ENT Service.
He has over 37 years’ experience in ENT of which 14 were in hospital-based ENT. For the last 22 years, Rakesh has been working as a GPwER.
He has been extensively involved in developing and teaching ENT in General Practice.
His models and published pathways have gained wide appeal and have been used all over the country. He has conducted his ‘ENT in Primary Care’ course for the RCGP, Mersey Deanery for 12 years, till COVID came upon us.
Rakesh is also an ENT tutor and lectured for several recognised medical education providers, including MediConf and for the Royal Society of Medicine GP Update. He is on the advisory committee for Tinnitus UK.
He has multiple international publications in ENT. He has been the referee for the ENT section for the Journal of the Royal Society for Promotion of Health.
He has a degree module in Allergy from the National Respiratory Training Centre. He has contributed articles for GP, PULSE, audiology magazines, and the BIDA Journal. He is involved in ENT triage in his region. He has been featured on the BBC.
Rakesh has chaired the RCGP ODE ENT conference in June 2026, for the 11th consecutive year. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in ENT at Edge Hill University. He has published three novels and is keenly interested in music and sports.
Symposium Speaker Dr Steve Longworth qualified in 1981 and was a full time GP in Leicester for 30 years, then a GP in Australia for seven years. He returned to the UK in 2021 and currently works as a GP locum. He was a GP Trainer, Appraiser, Undergraduate Tutor, and has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Clinical Skills at St George’s University Medical School in The Caribbean.
He worked in the Shoulder and Spine Clinics of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Leicester General Hospital as a Specialist Doctor. He was the first GPwSI in Musculoskeletal Medicine in Leicester.
He has a Masters degree in Sport and Exercise Medicine and diplomas in Musculoskeletal Medicine and Primary Care Rheumatology.
He is a Past President of The Primary Care Rheumatology Society and was a Tutor and Examiner for The Diploma in Primary Care Rheumatology at the University of Bath.
He is co-author of the bestselling book “Injection Techniques in Musculoskeletal Medicine: A Practical Manual for Clinicians in Primary and Secondary Care” which has also been translated into French, Greek and Chinese. The 5th edition was published in 2018.
He wrote the chapter on Chronic Back and Neck Pain for the RCGP’s textbook on Musculoskeletal Disorders in Primary Care (Curriculum Statement 15.9). He co-authored the chapter on clinical assessment in “The ABC of Spinal Disorders” from BMJ Books. He has written articles about musculoskeletal topics for Update, Prescriber, GP and others.
He has been a guest expert on Radio 4 medical programmes ˜Case Notes” and “Check Up” on the topics of back and shoulder pain.
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