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Other Practice ToolsThese tools are produced or endorsed by the Primary Care Respiratory Society UKPrimary Care Respiratory Society UK: asthma guidelines self assessment Complete our quick online self assessment survey to test your own knowledge of the national guidelines on asthma (click here), find out how you compare to colleagues and see the answers provided by the experts. Primary Care Respiratory Society UK Allergy UK Asthma/Allergic Rhinitis Tool A simple 6 point asthma and allergic rhinitis status measure for use in an asthma review to assess asthma control. Click here to access the document. Allergy UK’s Night and Day Report A report (2005), endorsed by the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK, highlighting the results of a survey of 1000 people with allergic rhinitis . Click here to access the file. Best practice in community pulmonary rehabilitation Recommendations, endorsed by the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK, from a meeting held in July 2005 with the aim of sharing Best Practice in terms of developing community pulmonary rehabilitation programmes. To download this document click here. See also IMPRESS standards for pulmonary rehabilitation. Bridging the Gap A report produced in 2005, endorsed by the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK, highlighting the burden of respiratory, written to support the commissioning of and delivering of quality integrated respiratory healthcare. Click here to download the report. Flu Pandemic Information The Primary Care Respiratory Journal (PCRJ), the official journal of the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK and IPCRG, commissioned two articles in 2006 on the Flu Pandemic with a special ediorial on Avian Influenza. The authors of the review paper (Lee Gan Goh and Pak Yan Chong) concluded that primary care healthcare professionals must update staff and patients alike on appropriate infection control measures and suitable avoidance measures. To download the article click here. Guy Richards, in his editorial provided some simple measures which should be taken by healthcre professionals to avoid catastrophe - see his editorial here. Primary Care Managed Community Acquired Pneumonia Aide Memoir This useful resource, endorsed by the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK, produced in 2007, is in the form of a ‘care bundle’ that summarises the critical evidence based actions that need to be taken based on the British Thoracic Society Guideline for the Management of Adult Pneumonia (2004) and SIGN Guideline 59, Community Management of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults. To access the materials click below: • CAP care bundle (primary care ‘aide memoir’) • More information on what a care bundle is • CAP patient information leaflet Business Toolkit - Making the Case for Education and Training Education for Health have produced a toolkit called ‘How To Make Your Case For Education and Training’ which offers nurses a simple, effective way to produce business cases to successfully secure funds for their continuing professional development. It contains evidence based, disease specific business proposals for nurses to use to establish their current levels of knowledge, understanding and experience, and plan development of their competencies within the framework of the health needs of their practice population in a way which is meaningful to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF), the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and National Workforce Competencies. To view the toolkit please click here |
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