Taxonomy: Guideline, Respiratory Infections, Standard, 1 hour, Treatment-management
Taxonomy: Respiratory Infections, Standard, Tool, 1 hour, Treatment-management
Taxonomy: Current, Other, PCRU, Professional development information, Service development and improvement, Standard, 30 minutes, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
There are no mandatory training requirements for healthcare professionals delivering respiratory care and the quality of care and patient pathways are variable throughout the country depending on the knowledge, skills, competence and confidence of those delivering care.
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Greener Healthcare, Standard, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, 1 hour
The PCRS Greener Respiratory Healthcare Quality Improvement (QI) toolkit has been developed to support HCPs working in the primary care setting to understand and evaluate the environmental impact of their clinical practice, identify ways to reduce this impact, set goals and priorities and evaluat
Taxonomy: Asthma, COPD, COVID-19, Current, Infection, Other, PCRU, Standard, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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.
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, COPD, Current, PCRU, Standard, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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
Taxonomy: Current, Other, Service development and improvement, Standard, Advanced, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, Expert
Patients with respiratory disease deserve equal access to early and accurate diagnosis, high standards of care, delivered by practitioners with suitable training and experience.
Taxonomy: Practical Guidance, Primary-prevention, Respiratory, Standard, 30 minutes
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Standard, Winter Wrapped, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Peak flow charting and microspirometry are undervalued in guidelines and were underused in primary care even before the COVID pandemic, but have enhanced importance now given the difficulties with access to more formal respiratory function testing.
Taxonomy: Primary-prevention, Respiratory, Standard, Tool, Early-diagnosis, 1 hour, Treatment-management, Complex-severe-disease, High-cost-need-patients
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Primary-prevention, Respiratory, Standard, Video, Early-diagnosis, Treatment-management, Complex-severe-disease, High-cost-need-patients, End-of-life-care
Taxonomy: Primary-prevention, Respiratory, Standard, Video, Early-diagnosis, 1 hour, Treatment-management, Complex-severe-disease, End-of-life-care
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Standard, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, Winter Wrapped, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this summary document Dr Noel Baxter describes tobacco dependency as a long term relapsing condition that usually starts in childhood. In the document he outlines simple steps you can take to support patients to quit including Very Brief Advce (VBA) and he outlines the treatments availab
Taxonomy: Clinical resource or information, Current, Infection, Other, Standard, Winter Wrapped, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
What you need to know about flu vaccination In this article, originally writen by Gail Miles, published in 2018 and updated in 2020 by Ren Lawlor, we discuss the benefits of influenza vaccination, why we need to undertake this every year, who is eligible, which vaccines to use and dispe
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma - Adults, Primary-prevention, Publication, Standard