The PCRS Podcast

Join Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member) and Ren Lawlor (Independent Nurse Consultant and Vice-Chair of PCRS) who give their top tips for smoking cessation. They share their experience of supporting patients with advanced COPD and lung cancer to stop smoking. Their discussions also consider the behavioural, social and psychological barriers to quitting smoking.The resources mentioned in this podcast are linked below.This podcast is part of our new series on respiratory topics, for both existing and non-members of PCRS.

In this new series, for both existing and non-members of PCRS, we will be briefly discussing some pertinent respiratory topicsTo kick things off and to mark National No Smoking Day on the 13th March, join Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member) and Ren Lawlor (Independent Nurse Consultant and Vice-Chair of PCRS) as they give a brief outline of Very Brief Advice (VBA), what the tools are and how you can implement them in your day-to-day practice.

In this episode we dive into the topic of breathing pattern disorder. Anna Spathis a Consultant working in Palliative Medicine is in conversation with Catherine Moffat - a specialist respiratory physiotherapist. They both work in the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service (CBIS) - a specialist service for people with long term conditions living with chronic breathlessness. This episode covers three key areas relating to breathing pattern disorder:

This episode features Dr Fiona Mosgrove, GP with special interest in respiratory medicine, in conversation with Professor Robin Taylor, consultant physician with NHS Lanarkshire. Robin has in-depth experience of difficult prognostic conversations with patients with progressive lung disease. This insightful episode dives into why care in advanced lung disease is such an important topic and what we can do as clinicians to help our patients with advanced COPD and Interstitial Lung Disease, and their families.

Dr Fiona Mosgrove (GP with special interest in respiratory medicine) is joined by Professor Mona Bafadhel (Director for King's Centre for Lung Health and Chair of Respiratory Medicine at King's College) and Christine Mwasuku (Research Nurse and First Year PhD candidate funded by Asthma+LungUK) to discuss lung health specifically in women. Their conversation includes whether there are phenotypes of certain lung diseases that are more common in women, the discussions that should be had around menopause, contraception, and lung disease.

A Conversation between a Healthcare Professional and a Patient

A Conversation between a Healthcare Professional and a Patient

Part of the One Airway, One Disease podcast series