PCRU

Issue 22: Summer 2021 Contents

*PCRU is for healthcare professionals only

• Editor’s Round-Up, Iain Small
• PCRS Pragmatic guide to delivering greener respiratory healthcare - Carol Stonham
• Reducing indoor and outdoor air pollution in healthcare settings - Stephen Holgate, Carol Stonham
• Shared decision making for greener healthcare; guidance on making safe and clinically appropriate changs to inhalers - Duncan Keeley, Darush Attar-Zadeh
• Top Tips: Making the case for greener respiratory healthcare and ifluencing upwards - Daryl Freeman, Noel Baxter
• Frailty and respiratory disease in primary care - Duncan Keeley, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones
• Getting the Basics Right: Pulse Oximetry - Steve Holmes
• The PCRS Respiratory Service Framework Interactive Tool
• Top Priorities for respiratory-focused primary healthcare service provision in the COVID era
• Delivering Excellence Locally - Unravelling the risk factors associated with under- and over- diagnosis of COPD
• PCRS News

Issue 21: Winter 2020 Contents

*PCRU is for healthcare professionals only

• Editor’s Round-Up, Iain Small
• The differential diagnosis of the breathless patient, Noel Baxter and Tracey Lonergan
• Peak flow monitoring and microspirometry as aids to respiratory diagnosis in primary care: more important than ever in times of COVID, Duncan Keeley
• Spirometry and lung function testing in primary care: Your Questions Answered, Carol Stonham
• Influenza vaccination, Ren Lawlor
• Tobacco dependency is a long-term relapsing condition that usually starts in childhood
• Top tips for communicating the benefits of pulmonary rehabilitation to patients, Clare Cook, Siobhan Hollier and Fran Robinson
• Tips for encouraging activity as a gateway to good respiratory health, Clare Cook and Dr Elaine Bevan-Smith
• The Appropriate Use of Rescue Packs, Fran Robinson and Professor John Hurst
• PCRS News

PCRU Highlights

• Asthma Guidelines in Practice
• Focus on Lung Cancer
• PCRS Conference 2020
• Goodbye Anne

Special Features

• Editor’s Round-Up Iain Small
• My COVID-19 Reflections Clare Cook
• Asthma Guidelines in Practice: a PCRS consensus
• Focus on Lung Cancer
• The online PCRS Respiratory Conference 2020
• Fit to Care: key knowledge skills and training for the multidisciplinary team providing respiratory care
• Hard work, tenacity, commitment, determination, drive, support, challenge, dedication Bronwen Thompson

Regular Features

• Policy Round-Up Tracey Lonergan, Noel Baxter
• PCRS News Round-Up

Delivering Excellence Locally

• How enhanced competencies and templates are being used to improve respiratory care in Wales Louise Walby

Affiliated Groups

• How technology can take the stress out of running your local group Emma Thompson

Conference Proceedings Highlights

• Abstracts
• Conference Feedback

Plenary Session Highlights

• Fit for the future: an optimistic view of respiratory care
• Managing Breathlessness: the Breathing, Thinking Functioning approach

Clinical Stream Highlights

• Managing cough in primary care
• Respiratory disease in the context of comorbidities and ageing
• We are SABA Guardians - Ask, Advise, Act.

Service Development Stream Highlights

• Developing Services and Sharing Best Practice in Respiratory Primary Care Medicine

PCRU Highlights

• The role of e-cigarettes in treating tobacco dependence
• FeNO testing for asthma diagnosis: A PCRS consensus
• Poorly controlled and severe asthma: triggers for referral

Special Features

• Editor’s Round-Up Iain Small
• Outgoing Chair’s Perspective: Noel Baxter
• Incoming Chair's Perspective: Carol Stonham
• The role of e-cigarettes in treating tobacco dependence
• FeNO testing for asthma diagnosis: A PCRS consensus
• Poorly controlled and severe asthma: triggers for referral
• Why I hate asthma reviews: a patient perspective
• Countdown to the the PCRS respiratory conference 2019
• 10 top tips for PCN clinical directors: the respiratory long term condition perspective

Regular Features

• Policy Round-Up Tracey Lonergan, Noel Baxter
• Journal Round-Up
• PCRS News Round-Up
• Second opinion: Your respiratory questions answered - What are PEP and IMT devices?

Delivering Excellence Locally

• Implementing Fit to Care in Practice, Carol Stonham
• Nurse develops aide memoire for structured respiratory assessment, Jackie Dale
• Optimising COPD prescribing and improving care, Sarah-Jane Rowlands
• PCRS respiratory leadership programme: case study - Siobhan Hollier
• Affiliated Groups: Tricia Bryant

PCRU Highlights

• PCRS consensus guide to managing COPD
• Become a Quit Catalyst
• Essential Guide to Spirometry
• PCRS Conference 2019

Special Features

• Editor’s Round-Up Iain Small
• Chair’s Perspective Noel Baxter
• All that glitters is not GOLD, nor is it even NICE Vince Mak, Duncan Keeley, Noel Baxter, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, Carol Stonham, Anna Murphy
• Become a quit catalyst Noel Baxter
• PCRS Respiratory Conference 2019 
• Your essential guide to spirometry

Regular Features

• Policy Round-Up Bronwen Thompson
• Journal Round-Up
• PCRS News Round-Up
• PCRS News - Carol Stonham: respiratory champion
• Second opinion Your respiratory questions answered

Delivering Excellence Locally

• Primary care teams benefit from innovative multidisciplinary respiratory education Francesca Robinson, Emily Heiden
• Community pharmacy training programme set to improve asthma care. Francesca Robinson, Darush Attar-Zadeh
• Affiliated Groups: Are you ready for the digital era? Carol Stonham, Tricia Bryant

Monitoring ICS underuse in asthma and over-reliance on SABA: A sponsored supplement

Improving outcomes in asthma as an inflammatory disease: spotlight on monitoring ICS underuse and over-reliance on SABA: A sponsored supplement

A report of a multi-disciplinary consensus meeting held in December 2018. AstraZeneca organised and fully funded the meeting and the production of this supplement. All meeting participants reviewed and commented upon the content of this supplement. The views expressed are not necessarily those of AstraZeneca or PCRS.

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Date of preparation: April 2019

Issue 16 of PCRU looks back over the year and looks forward to the future of respiratory care 

PCRU Highlights

• Focus on respiratory disease for England
• Respiratory Virtual Clinics
• Conference highlights

Special Features

• Editor’s Round-Up Iain Small
• Chair’s Perspective Noel Baxter
• A focus on respiratory disease for England Mike Morgan and Bronwen Thompson
• Multidisciplinary respiratory virtual clinics Noel Baxter, Binita Kane, George Ng Man Kwong and Jorgen Vestbo
• PCRS 2018 Conference Highlights Fran Robinson
• Collaborations and Partnerships: vital tools for successful research Helen Ashdown
• Conference Abstracts 

Regular Features

• What else can it be? Stephen Gaduzo, Fran Robinson
• Policy Round-Up Bronwen Thompson
• Journal Round-Up
• PCRS News Round-Up
• Second opinion Your respiratory questions answered

Delivering Excellence Locally

• Achieving national spirometry certification in primary and secondary care in Wales: a systematic approach Dr Simon Barry
• PCRS Respiratory leaders programme Dr Dayo Kuku
• Affiliated Groups: Practical solutions for ensuring the long term success of local affiliated groups Fran Robinson

Issue 15 of PCRU examines the challenges of tackling multimorbidity in patients with respiratory disease and equality in patient populations.

PCRU Highlights

• Treatable and untreatable traits
• Equity and equality
• Influenza vaccination: truths and myths

Special Features

• Editor’s Round-Up Iain Small
• Chair’s Perspective Noel Baxter
• Medical complexity: treatable and untreatable traits - challenging health care to move onwards Stephen Gaduzo, Steve Holmes, June Roberts, Iain Small
• The challanges of delivering respiratory care to a rural, coastal, deprived population
• Challanges of working in an inner city practice: illegal drugs use and respiratory illness Roy Robertson

Regular Features

• Getting the Basics Right Influenza vaccination: helping respiratory consultations Gail Miles
• Supported self-management case history Looking beyond the disease Iain Small
• Policy Round-Up Bronwen Thompson
• Journal Round-Up
• PCRS-UK News Round-Up
• Second opinion Your respiratory questions answered
• Delivering Excellence Locally 
• Very brief advice training as part of a quality improvement scheme Katherine Hickman
• An integrated care project to proactively identify patients with respiratory disease achieves Gold Standard care Fran Robinson, Jayne Longstaff
• Respiratory Leadership Programme Fran Robinson, Deirdre Siddaway
• ‘Be Seen, Be Heard, Be Brave’ - PCRS One-Day Workshop held on 11 July 2018 Fran Robinson
• Affiliated Groups
• Clinical Update Tobaccoo dependency is a long-term relapsing condition that usually starts in childhood

Special Features

• Editor’s Round-Up Iain Small
• Chair’s Perspective: Influencing change Noel Baxter
• Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS-UK Consensus
• The Appropriate Use of Rescue Packs Fran Robinson
• PCRS-UK National Respiratory Conference Building Confidence in a Changing World 28-29th September 2018,Telford International Centre

Regular Features

• What Else Can It Be? Doug and his Breathlessness Steve Holmes
• Getting the Basics Right Managing dilemmas in respiratory tract infections and antibiotics prescribing Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, Katherine Hickman
• Supported self-management case history Childhood asthma and respiratory infection Iain Small
• Policy Round-Up Bronwen Thompson
• Journal Round-Up
• PCRS-UK News Round-Up
• Second opinion Your respiratory questions answered
• Delivering Excellence Locally Thinking differently about delivering pulmonary rehabilitation improved patients’ access to education Fran Robinson, Karen Donaldson, Ali Brenton
• Affiliated Groups
• Clinical Update Evaluation of appropriateness of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy in COPD and guidance on ICS withdrawal