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NICE publishes draft guidance on COPD

10 July 2018 - 4:47pm

Two important new NICE consultations on new COPD guidance have been published. New draft antimicrobial prescribing guidance sets out an antimicrobial prescribing strategy for acute...

More mesothelioma patients are receiving active treatment

10 July 2018 - 8:53am

More mesothelioma patients are receiving active treatment with chemotherapy but just 7% are alive three years after being diagnosed, finds a new report from the Royal College of Physicians and...

The number of adult smokers falls to an all-time low in the UK

6 July 2018 - 10:49am

The number of adult smokers in England has dropped by around 1.6m, the latest Government figures show. Overall smoking rates for 2017 are at all-time low of 14.9%, down from 19.3% just five years...

New guidance from fire chiefs on safe use of e-cigarettes

30 June 2018 - 10:14am

New guidance on the safe use of rechargeable e-cigarettes has been published by the National Fire Chiefs Council. The position statement, produced in conjunction with Public Health England, says...

Project planning in a cash strapped NHS

26 June 2018 - 10:20am

Getting a project underway and making it happen was the focus of the June meeting of the Respiratory Clinical Leadership workshop. Independent consultant Catherine Blackaby introduced delegates to...

New report calls for radical change in the way the NHS treats smoking

26 June 2018 - 10:10am

A major new report from the Royal College of Physicians calls for everyone working in the health service to identify smokers and help them to quit, a policy supported by PCRS. It describes...

Review sets out why and how spacer devices should be used for inhaled therapy

25 June 2018 - 12:33pm

Every patient treated with a pressured metered dose inhaler (pMDI) should own and regularly use a spacer/valved holding chamber (VHC) concludes a new review. They should know how to use the device...

Improving care is shared goal of international respiratory community: IPCRG 2018

12 June 2018 - 11:15am

The global primary care network is “engaged, friendly, thoughtful and patient-centred” tweeted the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) following a successful 9th IPCRG World...

Clinicians can learn from patients who have had asthma attacks

11 June 2018 - 10:29am

Hospital admissions were reduced by 16% after practices in Harrow took on board the lessons learned from an audit of 291 children and young people who had had asthma attacks. This shows that...

Review identifies factors which put children at risk of an asthma attack

6 June 2018 - 5:02pm

A review of 68 worldwide studies has identified the factors which put children at risk of a severe asthma attack. Clinicians will be able to use this information to focus risk reduction management...