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Time to review: 30 minutes
Type: Event information, PCRU Clinical Area: Other Status: Current

Speaker Dr Anna Spathis, Consultant in Pallative Care, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Time to review: 30 minutes
Type: Event information, Research information Clinical Area: Other Status: Current

Time to review: 30 minutes

PCRS support initiatives to improve air quality and minimise short- and long-term damage to the environment, particularly those with an impact on climate change resulting from greenhouse gases.

Time to review: 1 hour
Type: PCRU Clinical Area: Asthma, COPD Status: Current

Conference Proceedings Highlights Abstracts Conference Feedback Plenary Session Highlights Fit for the future: an optimistic view of respiratory care Managing Breathlessness: the Breathing, Thinking Functioning approach Clinical Stream Highligh

Time to review: 30 minutes
Type: Clinical resource or information, PCRU Clinical Area: Other Status: Current

Expert advice on how all members of the primary are team can improve detection of patients at risk of lung cancer is set out in a new suite of articles published by PCRS.

Time to review: 15 minutes
Type: Clinical resource or information Clinical Area: Asthma Status: Current

PCRS offer two posters available for download and use in practice surgeries and pharmacies.  The posters highlight the benefit of regular preventer inhaler therapy and a reduction in reliance on short -acting reliever inhalers.  Both posters recommend talking to the practice nurse or pharmacist if patients feel they are reliant on their reliever inhaler more than three times per week of if asthma symptoms are frequent. The posters can be downloaded and printed using a colour printer.  Posters are A4 in size for convenience of local printing.

Time to review: 30 minutes
Type: Clinical resource or information Clinical Area: Asthma Status: Current

In this article, updated for asthma in November 2019, we discuss the building blocks of a good asthma review focusing on:

Time to review: 30 minutes
Type: Clinical resource or information Clinical Area: Asthma Status: Current

Case Study 1 - Noel Baxter Locum GP and PCRS Policy Lead discusses the importance of system change in the practice particularly around the reviewing and re-authorising of repeat prescriptions for short acting beta-2-agonsts Case Study 2 - Frances Barrett, Independent respiratory specialist nurse reports on a project to tackle SABA overuse in a practice

Time to review: 1 hour
Type: Clinical resource or information Clinical Area: Asthma Status: Current

The playing cards on these slides and downloadable PDF playing cards are a way to trigger conversations with healthcare teams, and between pharmacists and patients regarding the use of/reliance on SABA inhalers. We invite you to use them to start a discussion!