On Demand webinar: FeNO Plan on a Page
Are you struggling to persuade your Integrated Care Board (ICB) to fund FeNO testing? With the new BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guideline recommending FeNO for asthma diagnostic testing, this can create quite a challenging for primary care providers. There can also be uncertainty around when to use it and when not to and many will not be alone in this uncertainty.
In this webinar, Katherine Hickman (PCRS executive chair) and guest speaker Sanjeev Rana (GP) discussed:
- What FeNO is and why it's so important in diagnosing asthma,
- Addressing common barriers,
- How to align recommendations with national guidance, and
- How to help you build confidence in implementing FeNO testing across primary care.
Speakers
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Katherine Hickman
Katherine qualified from Leeds University in 2000. She originally did a Medicine Rotation acquiring her MRCP before settling into General Practice. She is a GP Partner in Bradford. Katherine is the Respiratory Lead for West Yorkshire ICB, Primary Care Clinical Lead for the National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP), and Chair of PCRS. Outside of work she enjoys cooking, baking, yoga, and outdoor swimming and has recently rediscovered her love for singing and joined a choir. -
Sanjeev Rana
Dr. Sanjeev Rana is a full time General Practitioner, GP trainer, Clinical Commissioner, Medical Director, and Respiratory GPwER working in West Essex.
He graduated from the Imperial School of Medicine and Technology in 1995 and qualified as a General Practitioner in 1998. His interests include Respiratory, dermatology, skin surgery and urgent care. He has a keen interest in population-based healthcare, applying international healthcare models to local service delivery, applying risk stratification tools to chronic disease management to optimise healthcare utilisation, developing the NHS workforce, and understanding what value means to the NHS.
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