Key learning points:
• Taking a history, doing the examination, chest X-ray and spirometry are really important
• Look for red flags and refer these patients straight to secondary care.
• Do the basics which will point you towards the things you can do in primary care.
• If you are worried…
Primary Care Respiratory Update (PCRU)
Our members' magazine packed with useful features, clinical updates, educational updates, respiratory news and opinion.
Issue
32
Spring/Summer 2026
Issue contents
- PCRS Conference 2026: Why you should be there
- Consensus guide: Implementing the 2024 asthma guidelines in all healthcare sett…
- IPCRG Desktop Helper: A practical guide to improve rhinitis diagnosis in primar…
- IPCRG Desktop Helper: A practical guide to improve rhinitis management in prima…
- A new route in anaphylaxis treatment: Intranasal adrenaline
- A simple solution right under our noses: Why nasal saline sprays deserve more a…
- Asthma, allergy and the school environment: Supporting children and young people
- UK Inhaler Group (UKIG) consensus guide on spacer devices
- Putting greener healthcare into practice
- Left behind by design: Who’s missing from digital respiratory care?
- The impact of poor housing on health inequalities and respiratory disease
ISSUE 18
This edition of PCRU has a flavour of 'out with the old and in with the new', as it is the last one in which we will feature Noel Baxter's thoughts and reflections from the Chair. His successor, Carol Stonham, is fast off the mark though with her superb and clinically invaluable consensus article…
ISSUE 17
Can Only Plan Daily - COPD is a serious disease needing the right diagnosis and treatment with the person’s need sitting front and centre.
‘All that glitters is not GOLD, nor is it even NICE’ is a consensus-based article that sets out a simple treatment pathway based on the…
ISSUE 16
This issue of Primary Care Respiratory Update takes a look at the past, the present and the future. There is a large amount of content in this issue, combining policy, educational and clinical care, looking at what works and why, and how we can be part of the new and exciting future for respiratory…
ISSUE 15
Issue 15 of PCRU examines the challenges of tackling multimorbidity in patients with respiratory disease and equality in patient populations.
ISSUE 14
This edition sees a focus on antibiotics – a hardy perennial topic that requires regular re-visitation. Whether for respiratory infections or as part of rescue pack use, the practical guidance given, together with the views of patients, aims to support your decision-making in practice.
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