Issue 15: Autumn 2018

Issue 15 of PCRU examines the challenges of tackling multimorbidity in patients with respiratory disease and equality in patient populations.

PCRU Highlights

• Treatable and untreatable traits
• Equity and equality
• Influenza vaccination: truths and myths

Special Features

• Editor’s Round-Up Iain Small
• Chair’s Perspective Noel Baxter
• Medical complexity: treatable and untreatable traits - challenging health care to move onwards Stephen Gaduzo, Steve Holmes, June Roberts, Iain Small
• The challanges of delivering respiratory care to a rural, coastal, deprived population
• Challanges of working in an inner city practice: illegal drugs use and respiratory illness Roy Robertson

Regular Features

• Getting the Basics Right Influenza vaccination: helping respiratory consultations Gail Miles
• Supported self-management case history Looking beyond the disease Iain Small
• Policy Round-Up Bronwen Thompson
• Journal Round-Up
• PCRS-UK News Round-Up
• Second opinion Your respiratory questions answered
• Delivering Excellence Locally 
• Very brief advice training as part of a quality improvement scheme Katherine Hickman
• An integrated care project to proactively identify patients with respiratory disease achieves Gold Standard care Fran Robinson, Jayne Longstaff
• Respiratory Leadership Programme Fran Robinson, Deirdre Siddaway
• ‘Be Seen, Be Heard, Be Brave’ - PCRS One-Day Workshop held on 11 July 2018 Fran Robinson
• Affiliated Groups
• Clinical Update Tobaccoo dependency is a long-term relapsing condition that usually starts in childhood