Primary Care Respiratory Society UK Opinion Sheets

The Primary Care Respiratory Society UK provides a range of concise, easy-to-follow summary publications, called opinion sheets, aimed at providing practical guidance on respiratory medicine to those working in primary care. These opinion sheets address key topics ranging from managing allergic rhinitis and asthma to a guide to using spirometry, and are an invaluable resource to anyone involved with providing respiratory care.

New opinion sheets are continually being developed so watch this space.

Opinion Sheets currently available for download are:

Allergy

• Allergic rhinitis (Aug 2008)
• Allergic rhinitis and asthma (Mar 2006)
• Allergy Testing in Primary Care (Feb 2007)
  
• The role of anti-IgE therapy in the treatment of severe allergic asthma (May 2006)
• Rhinosinusitis (Aug 2008)

Asthma

• High Risk Asthma (May 2009)
• Asthma - Special Situations (May 2009)
• Asthma Review (August 2008)
• Diagnosis of asthma in adults (May 2009)
• Discontinuation of CFC-containing beclometasone metered dose  inhalers - planning for change (Updated Jan 2007)
• Inhaler Devices (August 2008)
• Management of asthma in children (Mar 2006)
• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidelines for Inhaled Steroids for the treatment of chronic asthma (Aug 2008)
• Personal Asthma Action Plans (Updated August 2008)
• The role of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists, alone and in combination, in the management of asthma (Aug 2008)

COPD

• COPD Review (Updated June 2010)
  
• Home Oxygen Therapy (Nov 2006, Revised August 2009)
  
• Management of Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Primary Care (Updated June 2010)
  
• Management of Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Primary Care (Jan 2007)
• Mucolytic therapy (Updated Sept 2007)
• Palliative care for people with COPD (Updated June 2010)
  
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation (Updated June 2010)
  
• Self Management of COPD in Primary Care (Mar 2007)
• Self Management and Self Care (June 2010)
• Smoking cessation (Updated June 2010)
• Spirometry (Sept 2004, Revised March 2010)
• The use of long-acting bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids in the management of COPD (Updated June 2010)
• Hospital at Home (June 2010)

Organisation and delivery of care

• A guide to the Quality and Outcomes Framework for respiratory disease (Sept 2006)
• The use of pulse oximetry in primary care

Other

• Management of occupational lung disease in primary care (Dec 2007)
• Management of cough in primary care (Sept 2009)
• Sleep Apnoea (June 2009)
• Lung cancer (March 2010)
• Pneumonia (June 2010)