Quality Improvement (QI) helps us identify what works well and where we can make changes. In primary care, we don't have time or resources to spend on things that don't work, don't serve our patients, and that could be done more efficiently or effectively.

accuRx has created a FeNO template to send to patients prior to their appointment via text message. For information on what's included and how to find the template, have a look at the guidance document below.

This may include an understanding of the benefits of having a FeNO test, including:

Language can play a big barrier in healthcare delivery – for example, by preventing people accessing healthcare in an effectively and timely way, preventing people understand what they need to do to support their own self-management, or by preventing people from understanding their treatment and

These templates are only available to EMIS and TPP users – they are not available to MicroTest and Vision users.

According to the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) asthma control is assessed in two domains: symptom control and risk of adverse outcomes.  Poor symptom control is budensome to patients and increases the risk of exacerbations, but patients with good symptom control can still have sev

In the final podcast of the PCRS One Airway, One disease series we focus on the treatment of allergic rhinitis and real-life application using British and European guidelines.

The second episode in our PCRS One Airway, One Disease Podcast series is hosted by Ren Lawlor (Advanced Nurse Practitioner, London) who is joined by Katherine Hickman (GP, Bradford) to discuss the differential diagnosis, identification, and recognition of allergic rhinitis with real life applicat

In this first episode of our PCRS One Airway, One Disease Podcasts Series, we are joined by Dr Steve Holmes (GP, Somerset) and Frances Barrett (Respiratory Nurse Specialist, NI) who discuss the prevalence, pathology, and the significance in treating patients with Allergic Rhinitis.

In this PCRS Podcast Dr Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Executive Committee Member) is joined by Dr Robina Coker (Consultant & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, and Clinical Director of the NationaI Institute of Health Research (NI

The AHSN Network supported the spread of FeNO testing across primary care in England from April 2021 to March 2023, led by Wessex AHSN as the lead AHSN. This programme was delivered as part of the NHS England Accelerated Access Collaborative Rapid Uptake Programme.

This issue of Primary Care Respiratory Update takes a look at the past, the present and the future.

The Fit to Care document was initially developed to guide and support clinicians working with patients with respiratory disease. Since it’s first publication primary care has seen huge changes in the dynamics of the workforce providing this care.