In this edition, we focus on COPD and revisit the 2017 PCRS consensus on COPD treatment titled 'Keeping it Simple.' The updated algorithm aligns with the latest GOLD and NICE guidance, and maintains a focus on patient-centred treatment grounded in evidence, medication optimisation, and continuous…
Primary Care Respiratory Update (PCRU)
Our members' magazine packed with useful features, clinical updates, educational updates, respiratory news and opinion.
Issue
28
Spring/Summer 2024
Issue contents
- Opening Editorial
- A PCRS consensus on how to calculate and interpret peak expiratory flow rate va…
- Asthma and Atopy in Children & Young People
- Pollution its impact on Respiratory Health
- Tiny Habits for Big Changes
- Respiratory Health and Health Inequality and Inequity
- Tobacco dependency is a long-term relapsing condition that usually starts in ch…
- Frailty and respiratory disease in primary care
- Retirement of Professor Martyn Partridge as Chair of Trustees of the PCRS
- PCRS news round up
ISSUE 26
This spring, Primary Care Respiratory Update comes to you with a new focus on asthma. Our contributor bring you pragmatic and succinct information that you can adopt in your practice to support early diagnosis, improved management, reduced reliance on short-acting bronchodilator inhalers and advice…
ISSUE 25
This issue of PCRU introduces our latest pragmatic guide on severe asthma which guides you through this process ensuring the right patients end up in the right place with the right care.
Also in this edition, there has been a major shift in how COPD is assessed and classified announced by GOLD.…
ISSUE 24
This edition of PCRU features guest editor Nicola Strandring-Brown, a primary care nurse working in South Yorkshire and PCRS Committee Member.
We take a welcome look at the airway as a whole (yes, nose and all!) as Carol Stonham reminds us that while for some, allergic rhinitis is merely…
ISSUE 23
This edition of PCRU features the final editor's round up from Dr Iain Small, who has expertly lead our newsletter for many years.
Check out Katherine Hickman’s superb asthma building blocks – get those right and your asthma care would be unarguably better and more worthwhile. The piece dovetails…
ISSUE 22
Welcome to the Summer 2021 edition of Primary Care Respiratory Update. In this publication, and in keeping with the weather outside, we are providing a focus on climate, Global Warming, and the environment. The balance of good and potential harm that comes with the delivery of respiratory care to…
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