It is not a tick box template – all consultations with patients should be approached holistically and tailored specifically to the patient’s needs, requirements and other co-morbidities and situations.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRU, 30 minutes
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, COVID-19, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
We have issued pragmatic guidance for the routine and crisis management of patients with asthma and COPD during the UK Covid-19 epidemic.
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, Standard, Winter Wrapped, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Can Only Plan Daily - COPD is a serious disease needing the right diagnosis and treatment with the person’s need sitting front and centre.
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Very Brief Advice (VBA) is our most practical tool to trigger a quit attempt, with structured behavioural support and medical treatment being the best method of quitting and ideally these are provided by stop smoking practitioners.
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Patient information, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
ASK : ADVISE : ACT Using VBA does not depend on the person's readiness to quit and you do not need to assess it before you start Very Brief Advice or VBA is a simple and
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, Standard, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Tobacco dependency is a long-term relapsing condition that usually starts in childhood This tobacco dependency pragmatic guide is a practical, immediately implementable, evidence-based framework to enable healthcare professionals to routinely identify smokers, encourage a quit attempt a
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, PCRU, Peer Support Network information, Standard, Winter Wrapped, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS Consensus is a practical and pragmatic guide for healthcare professionals working in primary and intermediate care. This guide was commissioned to provide clarity on aspects of diagnosis, management and monitoring of asthma that are uncertain
Aimed at primary care respiratory leaders, this blueprint document provides 10 tips for contacting your local MP about environmental issues.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current
The COPD risk slider is a tool which can be easily used by primary care healthcare professionals in their normal 10-20 minute consultation to assess exacerbation risk in their COPD patients. It will support healthcare professionals and pharmacists to:
Maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) is a combined treatment system for asthma where a single, combined inhaler is used for both maintenance and reliever purposes, instead of having separate preventer (brown) and reliever (blue) inhalers.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Inhaler devices, Standard, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
Now is the time to make MART moves for asthma.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Inhaler devices, Standard, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
Maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) is a treatment for asthma where a single combined inhaler is used for both maintenance and reliever purposes, instead of having separate preventer (brown) and reliever (blue) inhalers.
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Other, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
A new interactive resource to facilitate the delivery of holistic care.Thi
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Respiratory tests and investigations, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this article, the authors review evidence, guidance and current practice to provide a consensus approach to calculating and interpreting peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) variability and reversibility from peak flow diary recordings for asthma diagnosis.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In 2023, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approved the use of a dual (Inhaled corticosteroid/ Formoterol) combination treatment to be used as a reliever therapy for people aged 12 and over with the therapy choice situated early in the asthma treatment pathway as an a