For our final podcast of 2024 we present the perfect opportunity for you to reflect and consider what behaviour change means to you and your practice.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Behaviour change, Current, Member Only, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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:
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, COPD, Current, Other, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Current, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
On the 28th November the joint National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), British Thoracic Society (BTS) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) will publish their long-awaited single guideline on asthma diagnosis, monitoring and management.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Current, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
This is a high-level summary of what the new BTS/NICE/SIGN Asthma: diagnosis monitoring and chronic asthma management guideline means for you as a primary healthcare professional and what steps you need to take to implement it effectively.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Current, Member Only, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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).
Aimed at primary care respiratory leaders, this blueprint document provides 10 tips for contacting your local MP about environmental issues.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current
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:
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Member Only, Other, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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 a
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Inhaler devices, Standard, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
Now is the time to make MART moves for asthma.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Inhaler devices, Standard, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
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.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Greener Healthcare, Member Only, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Current, Member Only, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this children and young people and schools episode of the PCRS Podcast, Ren Lawlor (PCRS Executive Vice-Chair and Advanced Nurse Practitioner) is joined by Lisa Cummings (Children and Young Peoples Senior Specialist Asthma Practitioner) and Corinne Beirne (Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Genera
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, COPD, Current, Inhaler devices, PCRU, Standard, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
Inhalation is the main route for administration of drugs for conditions such as asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The advantage of administering drugs by inhaler is that drugs are delivered directly to the site of action within the airways.