Healthcare Professional Resources

The Scottish Referral Guidelines (SRGs) for Suspected Cancer were clinically revised in 2025 to support healthcare professionals in identifying and referring people with symptoms suspicious of cancer.

Equally, the Guidelines help in identifying patients who are unlikely to have cancer and may be managed or referred through other pathways.

The full Guidelines can be found on the Right Decision Service.

A summary of all clinical changes, from the latest review, can be viewed here.

GatewayC is Scotland’s leading earlier diagnosis education resource, predominantly aimed at primary care.

Healthcare professionals can access a wealth of free educational courses and resources to aid referral decision-making and facilitate earlier cancer detection.

The resource is evidence-based and available to any member of the primary care clinical team including GPs (locums, salaried and trainee GPs), the wider practice team (including nurses and advanced practitioners) and all other relevant professionals such as pharmacy, dentistry, and optometry.

The content has been clinically reviewed by some of Scotland’s Lead Cancer GPs, to ensure that it is aligned to the latest Scottish Referral Guidelines (SRGs) for Suspected Cancer.

You can find more information and register at www.gatewayc.scot.

GPs Talk Cancer Podcast

Hosted by doctors Rebecca Leon and Sarah Taylor, practicing GPs and GP leads for GatewayC, the podcast covers a range of topics including menopausal side effects of cancer treatment, childhood cancer and breast cancer recurrence. The aim of the podcast series is to enable primary care professionals to make better, faster and more confident cancer diagnosis in primary care. Available here and on all podcast platforms, including Spotify.

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All of the Be the Early Bird campaign assets are available here.

Please help extend the reach of the campaign by sharing these materials with your patients and colleagues.