At the Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS), we believe in 'optimal' respiratory health for all. Our aim is that, together, we can benefit every person with, or at risk of, lung disease.

The start of a new year is an ideal time to support people to consider small ways to begin working towards a healthy lifestyle.

Bronchoscopic and surgical treatments for people with COPD can improve their lung and exercise capacity, and quality and length of life for many years in addition to what medical treatments can achieve.

This update from PCRU guest editor and PCRS Executive Chair, Katherine Hickman, gives an overview of the latest edition of the update.

In this episode we dive into the topic of breathing pattern disorder. Anna Spathis a Consultant working in Palliative Medicine is in conversation with Catherine Moffat - a specialist respiratory physiotherapist.

This episode features Dr Fiona Mosgrove, GP with special interest in respiratory medicine, in conversation with Professor Robin Taylor, consultant physician with NHS Lanarkshire. Robin has in-depth experience of difficult prognostic conversations with patients with progressive lung disease.

Primary care should seek to identify and provide proactive support to older people living with frailty.

Dr Fiona Mosgrove (GP with special interest in respiratory medicine) is joined by Professor Mona Bafadhel (Director for King's Centre for Lung Health and Chair of Respiratory Medicine at King's College) and Christine Mwasuku (Research Nurse and First Year PhD candidate funded by Asthma+LungUK) to

Did you wish you had attended the 2023 conference but simply couldn’t afford it? Were you unable to get the time off as your colleague was already booked for annual leave? When you looked into it the train fare and hotel prices were they way too expensive?

The ILD-IN are pleased to announce that this years annual conference will take place on 8th and 9th October 2023 at Edgbaston Park Hotel in Birmingham.

Aspiration pneumonia (AP) is disproportionately represented in people with a learning disability, in whom it is a major cause of death.

The UK's leading respiratory conference for clinicians working primary, community and integrated care returns to Telford in September 2025.Save the date18th - 20th September 2025Telford International Centre

As many as one-in-two healthcare attendances for breathing difficulties in Bradford could be triggered by breaches in daily air pollution limits, new research has uncovered. 

Dr Iain Small (Chair of the Primary Care Respiratory Society 2008 – 2013) (Born 11/02/1961 Died 20/06/2023)

Lung Volume Reduction (LVR) is a clinically proven and NICE approved therapy for reducing breathlessness in COPD. Changes in treatment means that minimally invasive options (e.g. valves) are now available, but the majority of eligible patients are not referred.