Special episode: asthma, menopause, childhood infections and cancer diagnosis, highlights from MIMS Learning Live South

MIMS Learning’s deputy editor, Rhiannon Ashman, brings you key insights and discussions from MIMS Learning Live South (13 June 2025), taking a tour through hot topics — including asthma diagnosis, menopause management, why ‘old is new’ in childhood infections, and earlier cancer diagnosis.

Our expert guests – Dr Steve Holmes, Dr Olivia Hum, Dr Justin Penner and Dr Owen Carter – distil complex information into practical takeaways, empowering you to enhance patient care across multiple specialities.

MIMS Learning subscribers can access bonus episodes, including full interviews with our speakers at mimslearning.co.uk.

Educational objectives

After listening to this podcast, healthcare professionals should be better able to:

• Apply the BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guidelines in practice, understanding key changes to diagnosis and treatment.
• Confidently manage menopausal symptoms in women with a history of breast cancer, including appropriate use of HRT and non-hormonal therapies.
• Identify and address the challenges of vaccine hesitancy and antimicrobial resistance.
• Optimise earlier cancer diagnosis by recognising common barriers to presentation and using safety-netting strategies for at-risk patients, particularly those with serious mental illness.

You can access the website version of this podcast on MIMS Learning to make notes for your appraisal. MIMS Learning offers hundreds of hours of CPD for healthcare professionals, along with a handy CPD organiser.

Please note: this podcast is presented by medical editors and discusses educational content written or presented by doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals on the MIMS Learning website and at live events.

Useful links

Resources from MIMS Learning

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Podcast: paediatric infectious disease

Guidance update: NICE guidelines on menopause

Measles update

Guidance update: latest NICE guidelines on recognition and referral of suspected cancer

Podcast: Dr Ravi Ramanathan on changes to GP appraisal

Podcast: NHS England’s Professor Peter Johnson on optimising early cancer diagnosis

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Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)

Combination inhalers for asthma

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