This spring, Primary Care Respiratory Update comes to you with a new focus on asthma. Our contributor bring you pragmatic and succinct information that you can adopt in your practice to support early diagnosis, improved management, reduced reliance on short-acting bronchodilator inhalers and advice…
Issue
27
Autumn/Winter 2023
Issue contents
- Guest Editors Update - Focus on COPD
- Spirometry in primary care following the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Keeping it Simple: A PCRS consensus on the treatment of COPD in the UK
- Triple therapy in COPD
- PCRS Pragmatic Guides: Bronchoscopic and surgical options for COPD
- The role of primary and community care in the assessment and management of COVI…
- Living with COPD
- PCRS News round-up
- Obituary - Dr Iain Small
ISSUE 25
This issue of PCRU introduces our latest pragmatic guide on severe asthma which guides you through this process ensuring the right patients end up in the right place with the right care.
Also in this edition, there has been a major shift in how COPD is assessed and classified announced by GOLD.…
ISSUE 24
This edition of PCRU features guest editor Nicola Strandring-Brown, a primary care nurse working in South Yorkshire and PCRS Committee Member.
We take a welcome look at the airway as a whole (yes, nose and all!) as Carol Stonham reminds us that while for some, allergic rhinitis is merely…
ISSUE 23
This edition of PCRU features the final editor's round up from Dr Iain Small, who has expertly lead our newsletter for many years.
Check out Katherine Hickman’s superb asthma building blocks – get those right and your asthma care would be unarguably better and more worthwhile. The piece dovetails…
ISSUE 22
Welcome to the Summer 2021 edition of Primary Care Respiratory Update. In this publication, and in keeping with the weather outside, we are providing a focus on climate, Global Warming, and the environment. The balance of good and potential harm that comes with the delivery of respiratory care to…
ISSUE 21
This 'Get Winter Wrapped' issue focuses on the twin challenges of winter pressures and coping with COVID-19.