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Clinicians urged to use new guidance on emergency oxygen to save lives Read Article

Clinicians urged to use new guidance on emergency oxygen to save lives

Health professionals from across the NHS and beyond are being urged to adopt the latest version of... Read Article

UK Inhaler Group launches new website on World Asthma Day Read Article

UK Inhaler Group launches new website on World Asthma Day

An interactive new website has been launched today, World Asthma Day (2 May), to raise awareness of... Read Article

Fun film encourages children to use inhalers Read Article

Fun film encourages children to use inhalers

A fun short film that encourages children with asthma to use their inhalers effectively has been... Read Article

New website for Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research Read Article

New website for Asthma UK Centre for Applied Asthma Research

On World Asthma Day (2 May 2017) the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research launched a new website –... Read Article

NHS Hospitals fail to meet national standards on helping patients quit smoking Read Article

NHS Hospitals fail to meet national standards on helping patients quit smoking

According to a major new report launched today (Wednesday 7th December 2016), NHS hospitals across... Read Article

More effective NHS prescribing of chronic lung disease treatment reduces drug bill Read Article

More effective NHS prescribing of chronic lung disease treatment reduces drug bill

More effective prescribing across the NHS in England has led to a reduction of £2 million a month... Read Article

Action on Smoking and Health & Health published Third Annual Tobacco Control Survey Read Article

Action on Smoking and Health & Health published Third Annual Tobacco Control Survey

The report presenting the results of the third annual survey of tobacco control leads in upper-tier... Read Article

Sunderland Royal Hospital winners of NT Respiratory Nursing Category Read Article

Sunderland Royal Hospital winners of NT Respiratory Nursing Category

A team from the Sunderland Royal Hospital were winners of the Nursing TImes Respiratory Award.  The... Read Article

Blue Inhaler save lives – standard colour needed to prevent asthma deaths Read Article

Blue Inhaler save lives – standard colour needed to prevent asthma deaths

Patients’ lives could be put at risk if pharmaceutical companies stray away from the widely... Read Article

Primary care: Time to take a breath – audit report for Wales Read Article

Primary care: Time to take a breath – audit report for Wales

Time to take a breath. National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Audit Programme:... Read Article