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.…
Primary Care Respiratory Update (PCRU)
Our members' magazine packed with useful features, clinical updates, educational updates, respiratory news and opinion.
Issue
32
Spring/Summer 2026
Issue contents
- PCRS Conference 2026: Why you should be there
- Consensus guide: Implementing the 2024 asthma guidelines in all healthcare sett…
- IPCRG Desktop Helper: A practical guide to improve rhinitis diagnosis in primar…
- IPCRG Desktop Helper: A practical guide to improve rhinitis management in prima…
- A new route in anaphylaxis treatment: Intranasal adrenaline
- A simple solution right under our noses: Why nasal saline sprays deserve more a…
- Asthma, allergy and the school environment: Supporting children and young people
- UK Inhaler Group (UKIG) consensus guide on spacer devices
- Putting greener healthcare into practice
- Left behind by design: Who’s missing from digital respiratory care?
- The impact of poor housing on health inequalities and respiratory disease
- PCRS Respiratory Leaders Programme: Could you be a respiratory leader?
- CARRii’s inaugural annual scientific meeting: Accelerating national action on r…
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.
ISSUE 20
Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS Consensus is a practical and pragmatic guide for healthcare professionals working in primary and intermediate care. This guide was commissioned to provide clarity on aspects of diagnosis, management and monitoring of asthma that are uncertain…
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