Join Ren Lawlor (Independent Nurse Consultant and Vice-Chair of PCRS) and Steve Holmes (GP and PCRS Committee Member) as they discuss vaping and e-cigarettes.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Podcasts, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Respiratory tests and investigations, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this article, the authors review evidence, guidance and current practice to provide a consensus approach to calculating and interpreting peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) variability and reversibility from peak flow diary recordings for asthma diagnosis.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Podcasts, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Podcasts, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this new series, for both existing and non-members of PCRS, we will be briefly discussing some pertinent respiratory topics
There is a strong commitment from the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS) to identify opportunities to support those delivering integrated respiratory care and showcase that planned, properly funded, and evaluated integrated solutions can be used to drive im
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Greener Healthcare, Member Only, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
In this PCRS Greener Healthcare Campaign podcast Tracey Lonergan, Shakeela Riaz and Amanda Roberts (PCRS Patient Reference Group) discuss their experiences of living with, and living with family members with, respiratory disease.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Health inequalities, PCRS Position Statement, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Tackling smoking, reducing air pollution, improving access to healthcare for those experiencing health inequality and an improved focus on research and development to fit the needs of people experiencing health inequality should be the priorities for systems wanting to make respiratory health out
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, COPD, Current, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Sixteen years ago I was diagnosed with COPD. My COPD means I get breathless very quickly now doing activities or things I previously did easily without and difficulty.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, COVID-19, Current, Infection, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Respiratory infections are very common in winter and can be complex to assess.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, COPD, Current, Other, PCRS Pragmatic Guide, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Bronchoscopic and surgical treatments for people with COPD can improve their lung and exercise capacity, and quality and length of life for many years in addition to what medical treatments can achieve.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, COPD, COVID-19, Current, Other, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
This update from PCRU guest editor and PCRS Executive Chair, Katherine Hickman, gives an overview of the latest edition of the update.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, COPD, Current, PCRS Position Statement, Respiratory tests and investigations, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Spirometry is a component of the diagnosis and management of respiratory conditions in primary care and should ideally be performed via referral to a primary care network respiratory diagnostic service or community diagnostics centre (CDC) with expertise in the diagnosis of the most common respir
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Asthma, COPD, Current, Infection, Other, PCRS Position Statement, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Primary care should seek to identify and provide proactive support to older people living with frailty.
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, Member Only, Other, Podcasts, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
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
Taxonomy: 15 minutes, Current, PCRS Position Statement, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
PCRS believe that it is the responsibility of every healthcare professional to treat tobacco dependency systematically and effectively. PCRS advocate that people wishing to quit using tobacco should be offered the most effective but also the least harmful methods first to support a quit attempt.