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For our next In Conversation Katherine was joined by Dr Richard Russell, a man of many respiratory interested hats!As we know, in many cases patients are still not being prescribed the right medications, and unless we make change now, this same conversation will continue to be had for years to come.Both Katherine and Richard share an immense passion about how patients should be cared for, and during this In Conversation they will break the inhaler inertia and talk about how we can move away from the outdated respiratory care that continues to be provided.

This is the second webinar in the PCRS Maintenance and Reliever Therapy (MART) in asthma campaign. It provides information on anti-inflammatory reliever (AIR) and MART treatment options in the context of the new BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guideline 2024 and associated implementation guidance.  

In this podcast Fiona Mosgrove (PCRS Education lead) and Tom Fardon (Consultant Physician) discuss asthma biologics and how they can support effective severe asthma care. It compliments and covers PCRS's asthma desktop helper which aims to support primary healthcare professionals with their knowledge of biologics and how to identify patients who would benefit from them. During this recording Fiona and Tom explore:

In November 2024 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), in collaboration with the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN), launched their updated guideline: Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management [NG245]. This guideline has the potential to deliver high quality, standardised and cost effective care across the asthma care pathway, as well as tackle health inequality and the environmental impact respiratory conditions have in the UK.

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 podcast Executive Chair, Dr Katherine Hickman and Beverley Bostock (Nurse Practitioner and PCRS Executive Committee Member) explore accountability and responsibility.During this recording Katherine and Bev will explore where the responsibility lies for maintaining optimal health, what environment has to do with resilience, and how to draw a line between what you do as a clinician and what people living with respiratory conditions need to take responsibility for.

As we move from Winter into the beauty of Spring, as the trees start to produce their pollen, we begin to see an increase in patients with symptoms of Allergic Rhinitis.To help us understand this inflammatory disorder, we had Dr Glenis Scadding join us for our March 2025 In Conversation.

In this episode of the PCRS Podcast our Executive Chair, Dr Katherine Hickman, is joined by Dr Llinos Jones, Consultant Respiratory Physician with a specialist interest in asthma.Llinos is passionate about tackling health Inequalities and has created a number of fantastic multilingual resources in order to support asthma patients. During this conversation Llinos and Katherine discuss how we can improve our patients' care and understanding by overcoming cultural and language barriers.