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.
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Taxonomy: Archive, News, Other information, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
PCRS has produced a draft copy for consultation of a pragmatic guide to diagnosing and managing tobacco dependence which calls for a new approach to treating smokers.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, News, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
PCRS has joined forces with international colleagues to promote a global initiative called Asthma Right Care (ARC) which aims to positively disrupt current thinking about the way asthma is treated in the UK.
Taxonomy: Archive, News, Other, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
A new logo and a more contemporary look for the society is being launched today at the PCRS National Respiratory Conference.
NICE first published a quality standard for asthma based on the BTS/SIGN asthma guideline in 2013.
Taxonomy: Archive, Event information, Other, Respiratory lead or clinical lead information, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Inhaler devices, Other organisation/charity produced
A Respiratory Dashboard has been developed by a group of respiratory specialists established by the NHS Business Services Authority to highlight the variation in prescrib
Taxonomy: Archive, Other, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, 1 hour
Issue 15 of PCRU examines the challenges of tackling multimorbidity in patients with respiratory disease and equality in patient populations.
Taxonomy: Archive, COPD, News, Other organisation/charity produced
The National Asthma and COPD Audit Programme (NACAP) has launched registration for its pulmonary rehabilitation workstream.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, News, Other organisation/charity produced
PCRS is supporting the AskAboutAsthma campaign run by the Healthy London Partnership to coincide with the start of the new school year.
A workshop dedicated to primary care respiratory researchers is being held the afternoon before the PCRS annual conference.
Taxonomy: Archive, Event information, Other, Peer Support Network information, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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
Taxonomy: Archive, News, Other, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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
E-cigarettes, estimated to be 95% less harmful than conventional cigarettes, are too often being overlooked as a stop smoking tool by the NHS, say MPs.
E-cigarette vapour boosts the production of inflammatory chemicals and disables key protective cells in the lung that keep the air spaces clear of potentially harmful particles, reveals a new study in the journal&