Spirometry is an essential test used to diagnose lung conditions like #COPD. It was paused during the pandemic due to infection fears. In an article published in the Health Service Journal Carol Stonham RN QN MBE calls for spirometry to be urgently resumed 📄ow.ly/rrZH50NylJH

We are delighted to share that we are now officially a teaching Trust! 🤩 A huge well done to all of our staff members who have worked so hard for this to happen, we couldn't have done it without you! 💙 Read more for what this means for our Trust here: bit.ly/41riSuG

Hi 👋 if anyone would be interested in looking over a draft resource re asthma and other languages, please drop me a DM! Thank you

📣 | Asthma action plans in multiple languages, simply scan the QR code, print and fill in for patients! Thank you to everyone who has helped to create this brilliant resource. Pls share⬇️

Sending someone home after an asthma / wheeze attack (hospital, GP, walk-in, ANYWHERE) ?? Just think - they need A I R ☁️🎈 A is for Asthma Plan 📜 I is for Inhaler Technique 👩‍🏫 R is for Review🚩 #askaboutasthma NHS London - BCYP team @RespNprang WeCYPNurses 💙 @WeGPNs

Poster setup ✅ Heckmondwike Grammar School PCRS #pcrs2023 Scienceposters

Brilliant Yusuf Akudi talk about #asthma #PCRS2023 #respiratory

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Well done! Kerry Woodward 1st poster #PCRS2023 FeNO in primary care & diagnostics 🔥 topic ARNS @WessexAHSN

A puff of blue a day won’t keep the doctor away! Thanks for sharing!

Ensuring early, accurate testing for respiratory conditions will improve patient’s lives, outcomes and SAFETY. It will also save the NHS money and work. The NHS needs to invest urgently to help itself and it’s respiratory patients!

💯 this. A silent scandal. Hundreds of thousands of people with lung conditions don’t have a formal diagnosis. How can we treat effectively (reducing winter pressures and NHS resources) if we don’t accurately diagnose? ⬇️🫁

This project was completed by partners from University of Huddersfield and the School of human and life sciences. This CARA framework with allow health professionals to effectively engage with population groups who are traditionally underserved. How can really listening improve services?

Let us introduce our Acute Assessment Units Doctors' Assistants! They are always super busy on the ward doing bloods/cannulas/ECGs & chasing things. They also draft discharge letters ready for our medical team to approve & prescribe on! #NHS #MedTwitter #AcuteCare #MYTeam

My week started with a patient yelling at me that I was a “f*cking neglectful disgrace” & “I’m taking you to court”. My week ended with another patient telling me “you should be ashamed of yourself”. So yeah… that’s how General Practice is going in case you were wondering.