It is not a tick box template – all consultations with patients should be approached holistically and tailored specifically to the patient’s needs, requirements and other co-morbidities and situations.

Can Only Plan Daily - COPD is a serious disease needing the right diagnosis and treatment with the person’s need sitting front and centre.

Very Brief Advice (VBA) is our most practical tool to trigger a quit attempt, with structured behavioural support and medical treatment being the best method of quitting and ideally these are provided by stop smoking practitioners.

ASK : ADVISE : ACT Using VBA does not depend on the person's readiness to quit and you do not need to assess it before you start Very Brief Advice or VBA is a simple and

Tobacco dependency is a long-term relapsing condition that usually starts in childhood This tobacco dependency pragmatic guide is a practical, immediately implementable, evidence-based framework to enable healthcare professionals to routinely identify smokers, encourage a quit attempt a

Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS Consensus is a practical and pragmatic guide for healthcare professionals working in primary and intermediate care.  This guide was commissioned to provide clarity on aspects of diagnosis, management and monitoring of asthma that are uncertain

People living with respiratory disease require a significant amount of support, guidance and intervention to manage their condition effectively. These interventions should be delivered by clinicians with an appropriate level of expertise in this field.

We are pleased to mark World COPD Day with an introductory webinar on the new COPD risk slider*. We are also highlighting our COPD resources including animations, position statement and podcasts.

Joining Ren Lawlor (Advanced Nurse Practitioner and PCRS Executive Vice-Chair) for this podcast episode on Paediatric Viral Wheeze is Lisa Cummings (PCRS Education Committee member and Children and Young Peoples Senior Specialist Asthma Practitioner) and Corinne Beirne (PCRS Education Committee m

After a short break the In Conversation webinar series is back and for October we were joined by Professor Tom Wilkinson, who is the National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP) Clinical Lead (among many other things including Professor of Respiratory Medicine at University of Southampton

In this podcast PCRS Committee Members Dr Steve Holmes (GP) and Darush Attar-Zadeh (Pharmacist) to talk about Very Brief Advice and how you can go about using it in your routine consultations.

This promotional webinar was initiated and funded by Glenmark and is intended for UK healthcare professionals and other relevant decision makers only.

In this episode, Daryl Freeman (Associate Clinical Director, ICB Clinical Advisor and PCRS Committee Member) is joined by Ren Lawlor (Independent Nurse Consultant and PCRS Executive Vice-Chair), to discuss all things Fit to Care - our tool that helps you ensure you have the appropriate training a

Maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) is a combined treatment system for asthma where a single, combined inhaler is used for both maintenance and reliever purposes, instead of having separate preventer (brown) and reliever (blue) inhalers.

Let's be MART for asthma.