This pragmatic guide has been developed based on the work of the PCRS Greener Healthcare Working Group.
Taxonomy: Current, Greener Healthcare, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, COVID-19, Current, PCRU, Service development and improvement, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The necessary restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have created a backlog of patients in primary care who have perhaps delayed coming forward with respiratory health concerns, whose respiratory condition has worsened during lockdown and those whose assessment or treatment
Taxonomy: Asthma, COPD, COVID-19, Current, Infection, Other, PCRU, Standard, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
PCRS have issued a position statement on strategies to care for patients with respiratory disease and frailty in the community setting. Frailty is thought to affect around 10% of those aged over 65 years and up to half of those aged over 85 years.
Taxonomy: Archive, COPD, COVID-19, Greener Healthcare, Infection, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, 1 hour
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current, PCRU, Standard, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this article Angela Wixey discusses a local programme of work that was established to unravel the risk factors associated with under- and over- diagnosis of COPD. The service was operated by a Respiratory Nurse Specialist (RNS) credited by the Association of Respiratory Techno
Taxonomy: Current, Greener Healthcare, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths in the UK every year and both cause and worsen lung disease.
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Standard, Winter Pressures, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Peak flow charting and microspirometry are undervalued in guidelines and were underused in primary care even before the COVID pandemic, but have enhanced importance now given the difficulties with access to more formal respiratory function testing.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current, PCRU, Winter Pressures, 30 minutes, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
Noel Baxter PCRS Policy Lead and Tracey Lonergan PCRS Policy Coordinator.
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRU, Winter Pressures, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Clare Cook Physiotherapist, Clinical Lead of a community respiratory team in Bristol, member of PCRS Executive Committee and Chair of the PCRS Respiratory Leadership Group in conversation with Dr Elaine Bevan-Smith Associate COPD Specialist South West of England Academic Health Science Network an
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current, PCRU, Winter Pressures, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has been included as a key intervention in the NHS Long Term Plan. However the PR audit1 showed that only 62% of people referred go on to complete the course.
Taxonomy: Archive, COVID-19, Infection, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, Winter Pressures, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, 1 hour
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Inhaler devices, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Dr Duncan Keeley and Prof Martin Partridge have set out that there are advantages of separating out the routine inhaled treatment of asthma and COPD from that needed in more acute situations.
Taxonomy: Current, Other, PCRU, Peer Support Network information, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
When Emma Thompson stepped into the role of chair of the South Yorkshire Respiratory Interest Group, a PCRS affiliated local group, she felt overwhelmed by the task ahead of her.
Taxonomy: Archive, Other, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
A summary of the latest developments in the UK health services, including any major new reports, guidelines and other documents relevant to primary care respiratory medicine from Tracey Lonergan, PCRS Policy Coordinator and Noel Baxter, Executive Policy Lead for PCRS.
Taxonomy: Archive, Other, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
"Hard work, tenacity, commitment, determination, drive, support, challenge, dedication." Reflections on the outstanding contributions of Anne Smith during her time as PCRS chief executive.