A primary care perspective of the changes to the 2016 BTS/SIGN British Asthma Guideline together with details of the summary of diagnostic tests from the guideline 

In this article for Primary Care Respiratory Update Fran Robinson talks to Sonia Simkins, Practice Manager in Rowley Regis on her innovative in-house stop smoking clinic which has helped free up clinical time and reduce unplanned admissions.  

Dr Lesley Ashton, North Shields, talks to Fran Robinson about the guideline she has developed for referral for bronchiectasis and cough.

This article from the Summer 2016 issue of Primary Care Respiratory Update has been adapted from the PCRS-UK Guide to Undertaking Respiratory Audits in Primary Care written by Stephanie Austin and Andrew Booth.

In this feature article produced in the Summer 2016 issue of Primary Care Respiratory Update Anne Rodman discusses how making relatively simple changes to practice templates to facilitate coding of key indicators has enabled a Birmingham practice to improve outcomes for its respiratory patients.&

This worksheet focuses on key findings of the National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) and offers some simple steps you can take in your practice to help ensure your patients with asthma are receiving optimal care such as structured review, personalised action plans, and appropriate training

This PCRS-UK practice improvement worksheet provides a simple flow chart to aid healthcare practitioners in the diagnosis of asthma in children.  It includes links to other related resources and materials.

EQUIP is a simple modular-based tool for practices, clinical commissioning groups, health boards and other groups working in primary care respiratory medicine. This module focuses on prevalence, early and accurate diagnosis of asthma and COPD

EQUIP is a simple modular-based tool for practices, clinical commissioning groups, health boards and other groups working in primary care respiratory medicine.

This worksheet aims to provide practices with succinct advice on the accurate diagnosis of COPD.  The worksheet includes a simple flow-chart to follow and sign-posts to other relevant PCRS-UK materials (hover over words to find links and simply click)

The COPD discharge care bundle is a short list of evidence-based actions which should be implemented prior to discharge for all patients who have been admitted with an acute exacerbation of COPD

This worksheet aims to provide some simple strategies to help identify high-impact COPD and support patients and carers

This worksheet offers succinct advice on the management of advanced COPD providing a simple flow chart of actions as well as links to relevant resources 

This worksheet helps practices to identify patients with undiagnosed COPD in an effective, efficient and practical way by providing a simple flow chart to follow and related links for more information.

This worksheet helps to support clinicians to identify the sub-group of their patients who are being treated with triple therapy outside of current guideline recommendations and offers a method for bringing their therapy into line with a more cost effective and clinically appropriate strategy.