Find a local peer support network

Regular network and educational meetings for any professional with a respiratory interest. Enables the opportunity to update, develop knowledge and skills to improve respiratory care through education, expert speakers, sharing experiences and best practice. These sessions will be supported by joint educational sponsorship from a number of pharmaceutical companies.

SYRIG are a peer support respiratory interest group meeting approximately bimonthly and providing a mixture of face to face and online events. We source speakers from the South Yorkshire area and Nationally and aim to keep our membership up to date with local changes as well as national issues and provide opportunity to network with likeminded professionals. We have a mixed membership which includes physiotherapists, pharmacists, GPs, Nurses, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Secondary Care Consultants - any health professional is welcome. Our website is www.syrig.org.uk, we have a facebook page and you can register there to be added to our mailing list to hear about local respiratory education opportunities and SYRIG meetings, we would love to hear from you or have you along!

A friendly group keen to develop best practice in respiratory care in our locality. Providing free educational events locally. Encouraging networking to provide support. We are made up of Nurses, Drs, Healthcare assistants, Physios and Pharmacists.

Practice Nurse Group for clinical support and supervision

The group is based in Wiltshire and holds quarterly educational meetings, there is also a very active whatsapp group through which members can ask questions and keep up to date with what is available locally in terms of education. We actively support each other and can set up informal mentoring partnerships to help nurses new into respiratory care, or taking on a new skill or disease group. Whilst the group is mainly nurses we welcome allied HCP who have an interest in respiratory disease in Primary Care.

An active group who normally meet every 12 weeks to update on various topics from ENT through to Asthma/COPD guidelines, sharing best practice and Topical discussions. Well attended meetings and good feedback from group members.
I have Involvement with the CCG and the NW Surrey Steering Group looking at referral to the NICS Respiratory Spirometry. Our next meeting will look at the way forward in providing a Spirometry Service & referral to our local Spirometry Clinics run by NICS Respiratory Hub & discuss the Asthma Care Bundle for Children, Viral induced wheeze/Preschool wheeze

This is a Respiratory Forum/Respiratory Interest Group which hold meetings for York and North Yorkshire. Educational sessions are carried out every 6-8 weeks via MT, those that usually attend are Respiratory Lead Nurses/GP's in respiratory interest and HCA as well as Pharmacy staff who are involved with asthma and COPD. We get together to talk about what we can learn from each other, share ideas and knowledge, and identify learning needs.