The APWSI was established to promote the role and represent the interests of Practitioners with Special Interests at all levels, from local, regional and national.


The APWSI’s aims and objectives are to:
- Promote good practice among its membership
- Provide high quality patient care at an intermediate tier care level
- Facilitate networking among its membership
- Support and provide continuing professional development opportunities
- Encourage local and national policies that support the development of Practitioners with Special Interests
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Important - bowel cancer “filters” for GPs – a timely initiative from the Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology

Late diagnosis is officially cited as the most likely reason for poorer survival rates from bowel cancer in the UK.
As you know, on January 31st 2011 the DH launched a public campaign aiming to raise awareness of common signs & symptoms,
to drive more symptomatic people through Primary Care, ...

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Rila are running courses starting in September 2011, in each of the following disciplines:

PG Dip Ophthalmology
PG Dip Minor Surgery
PG Dip in ENT
PG Dip in Cardiology
PG Dip in Urology
PG Dip in Diabetes & Endocrinology
PG Dip in Musculoskeletal Medicine

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Further sample templates for working as a GPwSI, but this could apply to any Practitioner with a Special Interest, have been posted on the site under "Generic Resources"

Click here to view these templates

The NICE guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Parkinson's disease were published on June 28th 2006. As the leading authority on the condition in the UK, the Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) is well-placed to discuss how implementation of the guidelines can lead to major improvements in services for people affected by Parkinson's in England and Wales.
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Up to half of people diagnosed with diabetes in the first six months of life can now replace their insulin injections with tablets.

Research, initially funded by Diabetes UK, recently identified that changes in a gene (Kir6.2) cause a rare form of diabetes that occurs in infancy. As these patients make very little or no insulin, it was thought they needed insulin injections for the rest of their lives.

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