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The autumn/winter edition of your members’ magazine packed with useful features, clinical updates, educational updates, respiratory news and opinion.

World COPD Day, this year taking place on the 19th November, is an annual global initiative run by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). World COPD Day aims to raise awareness and present new knowledge and novel therapeutic strategies for COPD worldwide.

In this PCRS Health Inequalities podcast Leslie Borrill and Rebecca Jacobs discuss suicide and suicide prevention in long-term respiratory conditions. They cover:

In this PCRS Health Inequalities podcast Noreen Grant, Lisa Cummings and Aaron Foulds (PCRS patient reference group representative) talk about the impact of respiratory disease on mental health. They cover:

In this PCRS Health Inequalities podcast Katherine Hickman (PCRS executive chair, Kaniksha Aggarwal, Martin Sutcliffe and Sue Wheatcroft discuss respiratory disease and mental health in the context of the UK prison setting. They touch on:

Point-of-care testing of C-reactive protein (CRP) for the acute assessment of worsening symptoms in people known to have COPD can safely reduce the use of antibiotics and could help improve the diagnostic approach towards someone presenting in such a crisis.

With the summer holidays fast approaching, many will be planning trips abroad and booking flights for warm and sunny destinations. However, flying can be a very challenging way to travel for many people with respiratory disease.

Breathlessness is a common presenting symptom in primary care, and there are many causes.Early and accurate diagnosis is critical to ensuring patients receive the right treatment at the earliest opportunity.

This webinar, chaired by Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), introduced the new PCRS/AZ COPD risk slider in November 2024 to mark World COPD Day.

The COPD risk slider is a tool which can be easily used by primary care healthcare professionals in their normal 10-20 minute consultation to assess exacerbation risk in their COPD patients. It will support healthcare professionals and pharmacists to:

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

The 16th International Conference on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease will take place on 28-29 November 2024 in Paris