This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
RN, Queen's Nurse, MBA, Former general practice nurse and nurse entrepreneur
GPNs are more than alert than most health professionals to the rise in number of exacerbations of asthma as children start school or go back to school each September..
Social prescribing is now a central part of primary care. It is defined by NHS England (2020) as ‘an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the...
Pulmonary rehabilitation is an exercise and education programme designed for people with lung disease who experience symptoms of breathlessness (NHS England, 2020). PR is primarily an evidence-based...
Primary care nurses, therefore, face a major challenge of addressing a backlog of work created by the pandemic and at the same time ensuring that they meet Quality and Outcome Framework (QOF)...
The ‘breathing drive’ is responsive to the body's requirements detected by feedforward and feedback loops from the brain and receptors in the respiratory system, with underlying ‘background’ control...
Back to school planning in 2021 may be hampered by a primary care system facing a backlog of care, plus a patient population who may be reluctant to access care. According to surveys by Asthma UK...
The National Review of Asthma Deaths (NRAD) (Royal College of Physicians, 2014) investigated the clinical records of 195 adults and children who died of asthma between February 2012 and January 2013....
In a speech on the future of healthcare delivered in July 2020, Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for health and social care, said that ‘Coronavirus has catalysed deep structural shifts in...
Early on in the pandemic, advising patients about their at-risk category took a lot of time and energy. There was a rapid move from face-to-face to virtual consultations, which proved a challenge due...
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