PCRS support initiatives to improve air quality and minimise short- and long-term damage to the environment, particularly those with an impact on climate change resulting from greenhouse gases.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current, Greener Healthcare, PCRS Position Statement, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Other, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Expert advice on how all members of the primary are team can improve detection of patients at risk of lung cancer is set out in a new suite of articles published by PCRS.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this article, updated for asthma in November 2019, we discuss the building blocks of a good asthma review focusing on:
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Case Study 1 - Noel Baxter Locum GP and PCRS Policy Lead discusses the importance of system change in the practice particularly around the reviewing and re-authorising of repeat prescriptions for short acting beta-2-agonsts
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Service development and improvement, Standard, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this article for Primary Care Respiratory Academy, Noel Baxter describes the nine good care processes developed by a multidisciplinary and integrated respiratory team in Lambeth and Southwark with a novel way to disseminate the measures and show improvement.
Taxonomy: Allergy, Asthma, COPD, Current, Respiratory tests and investigations, Service development and improvement, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Patients with respiratory symptoms and disease deserve a correct diagnosis and correct guideline driven care that is standardized, patient focused, delivered by a Health Care Professional (HCP) with suitable training and experience, at a site and within an appropriate timeframe to meet their need
Taxonomy: Current, Other, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this article Carol Stonham outlines her plans as the new chair for PCRS including her ambitions around cleaner and kinder respiratory healthcare.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Inhaler devices, Standard, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The least cost-effective inhaler device is the one that the patient cannot use. In deciding which device and drug formulation to prescribe healthcare professionals should first determine the patient’s ability to use the prescribed device correctly.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Fran Robinson talks to a patient who has had asthma all her life, feels that annual asthma reviews are a waste of time (except when they are conducted by PCRS members).
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRU, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Key facts
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, PCRU, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
E-cigarettes have become increasingly popular in recent years. The main reason given by current vapers for using e-cigarettes is to help them stop smoking tobacco. This pragmatic article provides information on the safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a stop smoking tool.
Taxonomy: Current, Other, PCRU, Respiratory lead or clinical lead information, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Leadership skills enable respiratory nurse to raise standards of care Fran Robinson talks to Deirdre Siddaway Respiratory Specialist Nurse, Suffolk Originally published in the Autumn 2018 edition of the Primary Care Respiratory Update.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Standard, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Alongside a detailed clinical history and other important tests to assess variability (peak flow, reversibility and challenge tests) it is used to support the diagnosis of asthma. PCRS has produced this consensus position on the use of FeNO in primary care to support the diagnosis of as
The PCRS position on changes to QoF.
Since the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) was introduced, PCRS has engaged with the process of developing and shaping the respiratory indicators.