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PCRS Conference Organising Committee seeks new members

02/09/2019

Anne Rodman, the current longest serving member of the PCRS Conference Organising Committee (COC), will be stepping down as Co-Chair at this year’s PCRS Respiratory Conference after six years of...

Ten Top tips for improving respiratory services

27/08/2019

PCRS has published a new resource to help Primary Care Network clinical directors improve local respiratory services. Written by PCRS Service Development Committee member Stuart Shields, a GP and...

PCRS publishes new guide to poorly controlled and severe asthma

27/08/2019

PCRS has published a new pragmatic guide to help clinicians identify the triggers for referral for specialist care for people with poorly controlled and severe asthma. It follows findings in a new...

Children are rejecting smoking and e-cigarettes

21/08/2019

Children are turning their backs on smoking tobacco in significant numbers, a Government survey reveals. Only one in six children (16%) aged 11-15 admit to have ever tried smoking, a substantial...

NICE publishes new asthma and COPD indicators

13/08/2019

NICE has published new indicators for asthma and COPD, part of a suite of new indicators, which will inform negotiations for the 2020/21 QOF in England. A review of the current QOF indicators for...

NICE publishes update on triple therapy for COPD

26/07/2019

NICE has published an updated COPD guideline which makes recommendations on inhaled triple therapy, and oral corticosteroids for managing exacerbations. It updates the NICE December 2018 guideline...

BTS/SIGN publishes asthma guideline update

24/07/2019

BTS/SIGN has published an updated guideline on the management of asthma. Key areas that have been updated include: diagnosis, monitoring, supported self-management, non-pharmacological...

PCRS welcomes government’s smoke-free 2030 ambition

24/07/2019

The Government has set a goal of a ‘smoke-free’ England by 2030 in a new health prevention Green Paper. This paper is the start of a more detailed consultation process, to which PCRS will be...

New PCRS resource sets out what good respiratory care looks like

16/07/2019

A Respiratory Service Framework setting out the components of optimal primary and community respiratory care has been published by PCRS. The document has been designed by the Service Development...

CRP test could safely reduce antibiotic use by COPD patients

16/07/2019

Point-of-care testing of C-reactive protein (CRP) in primary care may help reduce unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics for people with COPD, according to new research published in the New England...

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