NICE has published new draft guidance recommending benralizumab (Fasenra, AstraZeneca) for people who have severe eosinophilic asthma.

Patients with difficult and severe asthma are often failing to get the specialist assessment, support and treatment they need, says a new report by Asthma UK.

Smokers are being left without support to quit as figures show that the number of prescriptions for stop smoking aids in England have dropped by 75% in the last decade. 

Two important new NICE consultations on new COPD guidance have been published.

More mesothelioma patients are receiving active treatment with chemotherapy but just 7% are alive three years after being diagnosed, finds a new report from the Royal College of Physicians and Mesothelioma UK.

The number of adult smokers in England has dropped by around 1.6m, the latest Government figures show.

New guidance on the safe use of rechargeable e-cigarettes has been published by the National Fire Chiefs Council.

Getting a project underway and making it happen was the focus of the June meeting of the Respiratory Clinical Leadership workshop.

A major new report from the Royal College of Physicians calls for everyone working in the health service to identify smokers and help them to quit, a policy supported by PCRS.

Every patient treated with a pressured metered dose inhaler (pMDI) should own and regularly use a spacer/valved holding chamber (VHC) concludes a new review.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week, a national campaign which raises awareness of the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic lung illness?

The global primary care network is “engaged, friendly, thoughtful and patient-centred” tweeted the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) following a successful 9th IPCRG World Conference, in Porto, Portugal, 31st May - 2nd June.

Hospital admissions were reduced by 16% after practices in Harrow took on board the lessons learned from an audit of 291 children and young people who had had asthma attacks.

A review of 68 worldwide studies has identified the factors which put children at risk of a severe asthma attack. Clinicians will be able to use this information to focus risk reduction management strategies on the high risk child. 

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