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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 member and Advanced Nurse Practitioner in General Practice).As we enter a challenging season for healthcare, we discuss the serious risks of paediatric viral wheeze, the severe consequences of poorly managed symptoms, and practical advice on how you can ensure the best possible care.

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).The National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP) for England and Wales aims to improve the quality of care, services, and clinical outcomes for people with respiratory disease (including Asthma and COPD).

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.Using their extensive expertise in this topic, Steve and Darush share examples of the types of questions that are appropriate to ask your patients and how best to deal with the responses you might receive.Very Brief Advice should be exactly that - brief - and in this podcast you will learn some great tips and tricks as to how to best approach and work through a VBA conversation.

This promotional webinar was initiated and funded by Glenmark and is intended for UK healthcare professionals and other relevant decision makers only.PCRS have promoted, registered attendees and hosted this webinar in collaboration with Glenmark.Hear from our expert speaker Dr Ramsey Sabit as he discusses the diagnosis and management of perennial allergic rhinitis, along with its impact on patients with concurrent respiratory problems.The learning objectives for this webinar:

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 and skills to deliver respiratory care irrespective of your professional role.

Let's be MART for asthma.

Now is the time to make MART moves for asthma. We have been using the separate blue (reliever) and brown (preventer) inhalers for far too long. The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) came out a decade ago, yet as a nation, we still have the highest asthma death rate in Europe. This is unsurprising, considering many patients still rely on their blue inhalers alone. However, 

Maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) is a treatment 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. 

In our latest podcast Carol Stonham (PCRS Policy Lead and Respiratory Nurse) is joined by Hannah Leatherland (Air Quality Education Projects Officer for Cheltenham Borough Council) to explore raising awareness of green issues in schools and housing. Together they dive into what Hannah's trailblazing role entails in Cheltenham and what the 'Care for our Air' initiative is. Hannah provides some helpful suggestions about identifying poor air quality and how to improve it.