In a time of uncertainty and financial pressure, this issue of Primary Care Respiratory Update (PCRU) is a vital resource for anyone working in respiratory care. As Integrated Care Boards across England face significant budget cuts, programmes that have taken years to build are now under threat.

Single-use vapes are now banned from the shelves of all shops (from Sunday 1 June) thanks to a government blitz on sale and supply.

With the landmark Tobacco and Vapes Billentering its final stages in Parliament, and just days before World No Tobacco Day (31 May)and the nationwide ban on disposable vapes (1 June 2025),

For our next In Conversation Katherine was joined by Dr Richard Russell, a man of many respiratory interested hats!

In November 2024 NICE, in collaboration the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), released guidance NG245.

In this podcast Fiona Mosgrove (PCRS Education lead) and Tom Fardon (Consultant Physician) discuss asthma biologics and how they can support effective severe asthma care.

Are you struggling to persuade your Integrated Care Board (ICB) to fund FeNO testing? With the new BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guideline recommending FeNO for asthma diagnostic testing, this can create quite a challenging for primary care providers.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has put out a reminder for healthcare professionals and patients with asthma that overuse of blue inhalers (short-acting beta 2 agonists or SABAs), without use of a preventer inhaler, may lead to worsening symptoms or serious asthma a

Childhood asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood, with a prevalence of 10.2% in 2018. However, there is evidence of over-and under diagnosis in about 30% in mixed populations of adults and children and young people (CYP).

The Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) and Asthma + Lung UK call for urgent action to address the growing number of online pharmacies selling salbutamol inhalers without appropriate medical oversight.

In this podcast Executive Chair, Dr Katherine Hickman and Beverley Bostock (Nurse Practitioner and PCRS Executive Committee Member) explore accountability and responsibility.

As we move from Winter into the beauty of Spring, as the trees start to produce their pollen, we begin to see an increase in patients with symptoms of Allergic Rhinitis.

In this episode of the PCRS Podcast our Executive Chair, Dr Katherine Hickman, is joined by Dr Llinos Jones, Consultant Respiratory Physician with a specialist interest in asthma.

Antibiotics are crucial for managing infectious diseases and preventing complications like pneumonia or sepsis. However, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing global health threat, contributing to over 3 million deaths annually.