Primary Care Respiratory Update (PCRU)
Our members' magazine packed with useful features, clinical updates, educational updates, respiratory news and opinion.
Issue
30
Spring/Summer 2025
Issue contents
- Editorial
- Asthma literacy: Breathchamps
- Diagnosis of asthma in children and young people (CYP)
- PCRS patient reference group: What constitutes a good asthma review?
- FeNO: Plan-on-a-Page
- Rescue/reliever inhalers in asthma
- Allergic Rhinitis
- Tribute to Stephanie Wolfe
- PCRS news round up
- CARRii – the Centre for Applied Respiratory Research, Innovation and Impact
ISSUE 27
In this edition, we focus on COPD and revisit the 2017 PCRS consensus on COPD treatment titled 'Keeping it Simple.' The updated algorithm aligns with the latest GOLD and NICE guidance, and maintains a focus on patient-centred treatment grounded in evidence, medication optimisation, and continuous…
ISSUE 26
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 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…
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