The Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) and Asthma + Lung UK call for urgent action to address the growing number of online pharmacies selling salbutamol inhalers without appropriate medical oversight.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Current, Inhaler devices, Press Release, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The webinar will be held on Friday 9 May 2025 at 19:00 for 45 minutes. Chaired by Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), she and guest speakers, Deborah Leese and Marieke Strange, will focus on:
Taxonomy: Asthma, Current, Health inequalities, Podcasts, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this episode of the PCRS Podcast our Executive Chair, Dr Katherine Hickman, is joined by Dr Llinos Jones, Consultant Respiratory Physician with a specialist interest in asthma.
The Allergy Academy from King’s College London is collaborating with the paediatric and adult severe asthma centres to provide a panel of national and international experts to best inform practice.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Current, Inhaler devices, PCRS Position Statement, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
2024 marked a pivotal change in the management of asthma in the UK with the publication of a joint British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline.
Over the past 20-years, there has been an increased focus on the use of newer biologic medication in people with severe asthma that is not controlled with usual asthma medication.
The start of a new year is an ideal time to support people to consider small ways to begin working towards a healthy lifestyle.
The webinar will be held on Wednesday 15th January 2025 at 19:00 for 30 minutes.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Current, Videos / Webinars, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, 1 hour
This webinar featured short presentations and discussions from our amazing and vastly experienced panel: Carol Stonham, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, Deborah Leese, Helena Cummings and Darush Attar-Zadeh, chaired by our Executive Vice-Chair Ren Lawlor.
Taxonomy: Asthma, Current, News, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
New BTS/NICE/SIGN Guideline on Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management 2024Today (27th November) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), British Thoracic Society (BTS) and Scottish Intercollegi
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Current, Member - Premium Group, Member - Premium Lead, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Joining Ren Lawlor (PCRS Executive Vice-Chair and Advanced Nurse Practitioner) in this PCRS podcast episode is Dr Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member).
Taxonomy: Asthma, Videos / Webinars, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The webinar will be held on Monday 2nd December 2024 at 13:00 for 60 minutes and will feature short presentations and discussions from our amazing and vastly experienced panel: Carol Stonham, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, Deborah Leese, Helena Cummings and Darush Attar-Zadeh
Taxonomy: Asthma, Behaviour change, COPD, Current, Health inequalities, Respiratory tests and investigations, Videos / Webinars, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
After a short break the In Conversation webinar series is back and for October we were joined by Professor Tom Wilkinson, who is the National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP) Clinical Lead (among many other things including Professor of Respiratory Medicine at University of Southampton
Taxonomy: Asthma, COPD, Videos / Webinars, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
The In Conversation webinar series is back and for October we will be joined by Professor Tom Wilkinson, who is the National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP) Clinical Lead (among many other things including Professor of Respiratory Medicine at University of Southampton).
Maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) is a combined treatment system for asthma where a single, combined inhaler is used for both maintenance and reliever purposes, instead of having separate preventer (brown) and reliever (blue) inhalers.