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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.

Antibiotics are crucial for managing infectious diseases and preventing complications like pneumonia or sepsis. However, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing global health threat, contributing to over 3 million deaths annually. While resistance can occur naturally, the misuse and overuse of antibiotics significantly accelerate this process, rendering treatments less effective or ineffective. 

Are you curious about how research can fit into your everyday clinical practice? In the this In Conversation with the Chair, Katherine chats with Dr Jane Watson, who shares insights on how healthcare professionals can integrate research into their routine, from simple steps to bigger initiatives.

Join Frances Barrett (Respiratory Nurse Specialist and PCRS Service Development Committee Member) and Darush Attar-Zadeh (Clinical Fellow Pharmacist and PCRS Executive Committee Member) as they dive into the incredibly important topic of Tobacco Dependency.During their conversation Darush shares fascinating insights into the current data and progress that the UK has made with regards to smoking, but equally the exceptional challenges we face in helping people overcome their dependency.

2024 marked a pivotal change in the management of asthma in the UK with the publication of a joint British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guideline. This guideline, ‘Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management’, has the potential to be the paradigm shift that is needed to improve asthma care in the UK.