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As part of the Supporting People with Asthma in the 21st Century project, hear from Deborah Leese and Noreen Grant on using the GINA approach to asthma management for ensuring optimal treatment for asthma patients. Deborah Leese (Pharmacist) and Noreen Grant (GP) provide a simple overview of the GINA approach to managing asthma and how this can be effectively used, in collaboration with people with asthma, to:

Dr Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Executive Sub-committee member) is joined by Ren Lawlor (Advanced Nurse Practitioner and PCRS Executive Committee Vice-Chair) to begin important discussions around what a good asthma review for your patients looks, sounds and feels like.They touch on the importance of personalisation, being proactive, and how terminology and education are key to the success of a good and positive review for both the patient and you as health care professionals.

This webinar focuses on the topic of accountability and responsibility with guest speaker Beverley Bostock. We will explore where the responsibility lies for maintaining optimal health and how to draw a line between what you do as a clinician and what people living with respiratory conditions need to take responsibility for. 

In this article, the authors review evidence, guidance and current practice to provide a consensus approach to calculating and interpreting peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) variability and reversibility from peak flow diary recordings for asthma diagnosis.

Join Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member) and Ren Lawlor (Independent Nurse Consultant and Vice-Chair of PCRS) who give their top tips for smoking cessation. They share their experience of supporting patients with advanced COPD and lung cancer to stop smoking. Their discussions also consider the behavioural, social and psychological barriers to quitting smoking.The resources mentioned in this podcast are linked below.This podcast is part of our new series on respiratory topics, for both existing and non-members of PCRS.

In this new series, for both existing and non-members of PCRS, we will be briefly discussing some pertinent respiratory topicsTo kick things off and to mark National No Smoking Day on the 13th March, join Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member) and Ren Lawlor (Independent Nurse Consultant and Vice-Chair of PCRS) as they give a brief outline of Very Brief Advice (VBA), what the tools are and how you can implement them in your day-to-day practice.

Our second webinar in this series was held on Wednesday 28th February 2024.  Chaired by Dr Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), in conversation with Dr Mark Levy on the subject of asthma management, focusing on SABA over-reliance and how to address it. Dr Levy was involved in the National Review of Asthma Deaths in 2014 and is passionate about improving asthma care to prevent avoidable deaths.

There is a strong commitment from the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) to identify opportunities to support those delivering integrated respiratory care and showcase that planned, properly funded, and evaluated integrated solutions can be used to drive improvements in the care of patients.We value the importance of:• integration between primary, community and secondary care.• integration of respiratory care with other long-term conditions.• integration of both physical and mental health, housing, and social care.

Our first webinar in this series was held on Wednesday 31st January 2024. Chaired by Dr Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), the focus was on the topic of Health Inequalities with guest speaker Ren Lawlor. The session explored how you, as an individual clinician, can actively support and advocate for your patients in addressing health inequalities, even when the challenges may seem daunting and beyond your immediate influence.