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Presented by Darush Attar-Zadeh and Katherine Hickman, this session challenged delegates on their prescribing habits and attention to patient behaviours, and provided tangible tools and techniques for immediate adoption into practice to improve asthma outcomes.

Speaker Dr Chris Dyer, Consultant Geriatrician, Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bath

Speaker Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, GP, Box, Wiltshire

Frant Robinson reports on the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2019.

Speaker Dr Anna Spathis, Consultant in Pallative Care, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

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.

In this article, updated for asthma in November 2019, we discuss the building blocks of a good asthma review focusing on:

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

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.

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

In this article Carol Stonham outlines her plans as the new chair for PCRS including her ambitions around cleaner and kinder respiratory healthcare.

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.