Download your copy of the Primary Care Respiratory Update centre fold wall chart on Home Oxygen Prescribing. The chart feature information on the use of oxygen in the management of severe COPD.
This resource, whilst written by an experienced healthcare professional and peer reviewed at the time of publication, has not been reviewed within the last three years and therefore does not take account of recent evidence or guidance. The resource is provided as a reference tool only and the user should take into account the date that the item was published as being the date the material was considered accurate and complete.
Taxonomy: Archive, COPD, News, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The report, The Battle for Breath: the Impact of Lung Disease in the UK and its accompanying website, which received expert input from several senior PCRS-UK members, are the result of a three year epidemiological study, and provide the most comprehensive ov
Standardised (plain) packaging of tobacco products The standardised packaging regulations mean that in future:
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, Infection
This opinion sheet provides practical guidance and tips on the diagnosis and management of tuberculosis in primary care and the responsibilities of the healthcare professional when TB is diagnosed.
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, COPD
An opinion sheet providing information on the social and lifestyle impact of COPD on patients and their carers and advice on how primary care clinicians can help
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information
A protocol providing guidance on the use of telephone consultations for routine asthma review. This document is presented in Microsoft WordTM format to allow for local adaptation
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, Infection
An opinion sheet describing the diagnosis, treatment and referral requirements for bronchiectasis in primary care
This document has been superseded by the PCRS Fit to Care Framework wich provides concise information based on three different professional levels of standard, advanced and expert irrespective of professional role.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, News, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Why not take the opportunity to review and improve the asthma care in your practice using the PCRS-UK National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) worksheet1.
Taxonomy: Archive, COPD, News, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease – known as GOLD – has just published its latest guideline for COPD. GOLD has been developing international guidelines for COPD since 1997.
The document, produced in partnership with Public Health England, states that e-cigarettes are considerably safer than smoking cigarettes, are popular with smokers and that they have a role to play in reducing smoking rates.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, News, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Professor Andrew Bush and Dr Louise Fleming of Imperial College and Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust say that in the past asthma was undoubtedly underdiagnosed, but the evidence now is that the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has published a new report, ‘The Stolen Years’, which is endorsed by 27 health and mental health organisations and sets out recommendations for how smoking rates for people with a mental health condition