Facilitators Darush Attar-Zadeh Steve Holmes Carol Stonham This course is a two-day residential course to provide colleagues who are up to speed with COPD care and are wanting to improve their presentation skills and ability to facilitate groups
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2021 Jill Nicholls presents on "End Stage Management of COPD/ILD - Best Practice Tips and Guidance. When to Seek Support/Refer"
There are currently around 1.3 million people in the UK who have been diagnosed with COPD. It is a condition that affects the quality of life of those affected and can lead to premature death.
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2020 Sian Williams presents Strictly COPD: Dance your way to health
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2020 Dr Patrick White presents COPD and Post-COVID Session: the acutely unwell COPD patient
PCRS have issued a position statement on strategies to care for patients with respiratory disease and frailty in the community setting. Frailty is thought to affect around 10% of those aged over 65 years and up to half of those aged over 85 years.
In this article Angela Wixey discusses a local programme of work that was established to unravel the risk factors associated with under- and over- diagnosis of COPD. The service was operated by a Respiratory Nurse Specialist (RNS) credited by the Association of Respiratory Techno
This online symposium is aimed at general internal medical and respiratory specialists, GPs, Doctors in training, allied health care professionals and medical students. Topics include:
Noel Baxter PCRS Policy Lead and Tracey Lonergan PCRS Policy Coordinator.
Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has been included as a key intervention in the NHS Long Term Plan. However the PR audit1 showed that only 62% of people referred go on to complete the course.
The aim of this conference is to learn and share knowledge on current research, leading worldwide researchers, scientists, academic scientists, industry researchers, scholars, decision makers and other professionals to gather in COPD and Lung Health 2021.
Get ready for winter now... The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a huge amount of upheaval and changed the way we live our lives in a very short space of time.
Dr Duncan Keeley and Prof Martin Partridge have set out that there are advantages of separating out the routine inhaled treatment of asthma and COPD from that needed in more acute situations.