The webinar will be held on Wednesday 9th October 2024 at 19:00 for 45 minutes. Chaired by Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), she and guest speaker, Noreen Grant (GP), will focus on:

What is a good COPD review? In this podcast Carol Stonham (Respiratory Nurse and PCRS Policy Forum Lead) answers this very important question with Bill Stubley (COPD Patient and PCRS Patient Representative).

Chaired by Katherine Hickman (our PCRS Executive Chair), this webinar focusses on smoking, movement for health and COPD exacerbations with guest speakers Darush Attar-Zadeh, Steve Holmes and Alicia Piwko. They discuss:

Our latest PCRS podcast, features Michelle O'Driscoll (Director of Nursing for NSHI and PCRS Service Development Committee member) who talks to Dr Fiona Mosgrove (GP and PCRS Education Committee member) about the intricacies of COPD and the co-morbidities regularly seen alongside it.

In this article, Katherine discusses how small changes can have big impacts on creating new habits and supporting health.

In February 2020, the Institute of Health Equity published its landmark report, Marmot Review 10 Years On. It highlighted that for the first time in 100 years, life expectancy has failed to increase across the country, and for the poorest 10% of women it has actually declined.

This article explores the impact of the environment on the health of people with asthma and COPD and focuses on two key areas, indoor (home) and outdoor pollutants and severe weather extremes such as heat waves or very cold weather

In this article Lisa Cummings, Queens Nurse, CYP Specialist Asthma Practitioner and PCRS Education Committee member, discusses the management of asthma and atopy in children and young people focusing on perennial and allergic rhinitis, it’s impact on asthma and top tips for reducing symptoms and

In this article, the authors provide a pragmatic consensus approach to calculating and interpreting peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) variability and reversibility f

In June's In Conversation webinar we are joined by Dr Llinos Jones, who is a Consultant Respiratory Physician with a specialist interest in asthma and Clinical Lead for Physician Associates at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust.

In this episode we hear from Dr Aarti Bansal about the importance of delivering greener kinder respiratory health with PCRS Executive Chair, Katherine Hickman. Aarti explains how she communicates the importance of sustainable practices to her patients.

In this Pulmonx Sponsored PCRS Podcast, Dr Fiona Mosgrove (GP and PCRS Education Committee Member) is joined by Dr Neil Greening (Consultant Respiratory Physician in Leicester who leads one of the UK's largest LVR services) for a discussion about what Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) is, the

PCRS welcomes the opportunity that digital respiratory healthcare and the collection and analysis of respiratory data could bring.

In this episode we hear from Rachel Daly, Lead Nurse - Airways, Manchester Airways Service who discuss will the topic of allergic and non-allergic rhinitis with PCRS Executive Chair, Katherine Hickman. 

In May's instalment of In Conversation we were joined by Ian Sinha, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician and Honorary Professor of Paediatrics, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Liverpool to discuss the topic of health inequalities and their impact on childhood asthma.