It is time for our final PCRS in Conversation webinar of 2024. To mark the occasion we have special guest Katya Miles, aka The Working Well Doctor, to chat to Katherine and share with you all how to work well, and support your wellbeing.

This year’s conference was a resounding success, cementing its place as a highlight in the PCRS calendar.

The Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) advocates that:

A study published in The Lancet shows that, in 2022, more than 1 billion people in the world are living with obesity. The relationship between obesity and respiratory health is complex, involving mechanical, inflammatory, and metabolic factors.

Breathlessness is a common presenting symptom in primary care, and there are many causes.Early and accurate diagnosis is critical to ensuring patients receive the right treatment at the earliest opportunity.

This webinar featured short presentations and discussions from our amazing and vastly experienced panel: Carol Stonham, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, Deborah Leese, Helena Cummings and Darush Attar-Zadeh, chaired by our Executive Vice-Chair Ren Lawlor.

New BTS/NICE/SIGN Guideline on Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management 2024Today (27th November) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), British Thoracic Society (BTS) and Scottish Intercollegi

Joining Ren Lawlor (PCRS Executive Vice-Chair and Advanced Nurse Practitioner) in this PCRS podcast episode is Dr Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member).

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.

Aimed at primary care respiratory leaders, this blueprint document provides 10 tips for contacting your local MP about environmental issues.

This webinar, chaired by Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), introduced the new PCRS/AZ COPD risk slider in November 2024 to mark World COPD Day.

The COPD risk slider is a tool which can be easily used by primary care healthcare professionals in their normal 10-20 minute consultation to assess exacerbation risk in their COPD patients. It will support healthcare professionals and pharmacists to:

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