This is Lung Cancer Awareness month and the good news is that a recent trial reports that introducing lung screening for people at high risk of lung cancer could reduce deaths from the disease.  

Thursday 1st November marks the start of Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

The Room 101 session at the PCRS national respiratory conference touched such a raw nerve with delegates when they were asked what their top waste issue was that we have decided to extend our poll to the wider membership.

PCRS is delighted to endorse the Association of Respiratory Technology and Physiology (ARTP) spirometry course as appropriate for health professionals, having reviewed it and provided extensive input.

A new logo and a more contemporary look for the society is being launched today at the PCRS National Respiratory Conference.

Gathering the views of patients is essential if we are to deliver the outcomes patients want. But few clinicians are taught to do this during their training. 

Issue 15 of PCRU examines the challenges of tackling multimorbidity in patients with respiratory disease and equality in patient populations.

A workshop dedicated to primary care respiratory researchers is being held the afternoon before the PCRS annual conference.

The annual networking event for affiliated group leaders and their deputies and anyone interested in setting up a new group is being held immediately before the first satellite symposium at the PCRS

Healthcare professionals are reminded that antibiotics should not be used as the first line of treatment for coughs, by NICE and Public Health England in new antimicrobial prescribing draft guidanc

Respiratory disease is to feature as a priority clinical area in a new 10 year NHS plan being developed by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

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.

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

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.