Respiratory Professional Care | 9-10 October 2024

Our cutting-edge agenda - shaped by an advisory panel of experts in respiratory care - covered a range of themes, including: long covid, respiratory diagnostics, breathlessness, health inequalities, severe asthma and climate change. In addition, we will have the latest on asthma, COPD, lung cancer, ILD and pulmonary rehabilitation.

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09:00 09:05

Chair's Opening Remarks

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Steve Holmes, GP, Regional Clinical Respiratory Lead (South West) - Park Medical Practice, Primary Care Respiratory Society, NHS England
09:05 09:45

Steroid and Antibiotic stewardship in Respiratory Disease

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Oral corticosteroids and antibiotics are commonly used in people with COPD but come with risks of adverse effects and for antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance. In this talk we will discuss the benefi ...

Professor Anna Murphy, Consultant Respiratory Pharmacist - University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Ryan Hamilton, Associate Professor & Consultant Pharmacist for Antimicrobials - De Montfort University, Leicester

Richard Russell, Consultant Respiratory Physician - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
10:00 10:45

Diagnosing and treating tobacco dependency during an acute hospital admission: a new national framework for all hospital clinicians

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Tobacco dependency is both the most common and deadliest co-morbidity a hospital clinician will encounter. The British Thoracic Society has developed a standardised framework to empower hospital clini ...

Matthew Evision, Consultant Chest Physician - Wythenshawe Hospital
11:00 11:30

Advocating for elevated patient outcomes for severe eosinophilic asthma patients

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only

Pujan H Patel MD, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer - Severe Asthma Service, Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS FT and Imperial College
11:45 12:30

Virtual Care and AI for proactive COPD management

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

This session will share the experience of how Lenus- COPD digital support has helped transform the care of our patients and community respiratory team across Highland - a large geographical area with ...

Mike Crooks, Professor and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine - University of Hull and Hull University Teaching Hospital Trust

Michelle Duffy, Advanced Practice Respiratory Nurse, Community Respiratory Team - NHS Highlands
12:45 13:45

Transforming COPD care: Connected care: collaborative strategies for transforming COPD management

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only

Stanley Ejiofor, COPD/Oxygen and Respiratory Mortality lead - New Cross Hospital
14:00 14:45

Addressing inequalities in respiratory outcomes: providing systems with tools to deliver change

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Jonathan Fuld, National clinical director for respiratory disease and Consultant Respiratory Physician - NHS England and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS FT
15:00 15:30

Breathless during sport - what next?

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

This session will review the main reasons individuals develop breathing difficulties during sporting activity.

James Hull, Consultant Respiratory Physician - The Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health
15:45 16:30

The evolution of pulmonary embolism management: where machine meets man

Respiratory Keynote Theatre
16:45 16:50

Chair's Closing Remarks

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Steve Holmes, GP, Regional Clinical Respiratory Lead (South West) - Park Medical Practice, Primary Care Respiratory Society, NHS England

09:25 09:30

Chair's Opening Remarks

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Steve Holmes, GP, Regional Clinical Respiratory Lead (South West) - Park Medical Practice, Primary Care Respiratory Society, NHS England
09:30 10:00

How to spot the allergic driver for asthma symptoms

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Robin Gore - Cambridge university hospitals trust
10:15 11:00

Air pollution: understanding the impact on children's respiratory health

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

We all know that the environment we live in impacts on our health and the health of our children. What can we learn from research up to now and how can we advocate for better and cleaner air both insi ...

Abigail Whitehouse, Senior Clinical Lecturer in Children’s Environmental Health and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory - Queen Mary, University of London
11:15 11:45

Will the new NHS 10 year plan be a breakthrough moment for respiratory?

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Every 5 minutes someone dies from a lung condition in the UK – together they are the UK’s third biggest killer. But for too long the government hasn’t taken lung health seriously. Lung conditions cost ...

Sarah Sleet, Chief Executive Officer - Asthma and Lung UK
12:00 13:00

When is it time for a biologic? Live severe asthma patient case review

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only

Katie Borg, Clinical Research Practitioner - John Radcliffe Hospital

Dr Thomas Brown, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Deputy Director of Research - Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Lisa White, Severe Asthma Nurse - Birmingham Regional Severe Asthma Service, Heartlands Hospital, University Hospital Birmingham
13:15 13:45

Immunotherapy in allergic airways disease

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Joanna Lukawska, Consultant in Allergy Medicine - University College London Trust
14:00 14:45

ILD: Digital health the present and future

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

We acknowledge that COVID-19 pandemic was a disrupter in accelerating digital approaches to the delivery of healthcare. Tomorrow's NHS requires a robust infrastructure with integrated AI. In the prese ...

Anne-Marie Russell, Jenny Jones Chair of Nursing Science - University of Birmingham
15:00 15:55

Improving steroid and antimicrobial stewardship in your respiratory patients

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Professor Anna Murphy, Consultant Respiratory Pharmacist - University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Ryan Hamilton, Associate Professor & Consultant Pharmacist for Antimicrobials - De Montfort University, Leicester

Richard Russell, Consultant Respiratory Physician - Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
15:55 16:00

Chair's Closing Remarks

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Steve Holmes, GP, Regional Clinical Respiratory Lead (South West) - Park Medical Practice, Primary Care Respiratory Society, NHS England

09:10 09:15

Chair's Opening Remarks

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Mukesh Singh, GPwSI, Respiratory Lead, GP Partner - Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent ICB & Horse Fair Practice Group.
09:15 10:00

Pulmonary hypertension: diagnosis and management

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Pulmonary hypertension is an increasingly recognised group of conditions with well-defined treatments for some forms and less-defined treatments for others. This talk will cover classification, diagno ...

Robin Condliffe, Consultant Physician - Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
10:15 10:45

Update on the NCEPOD community acquired pneumonia report

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Neil Smith, Deputy Chief Executive and Senior Clinical Researcher - NCEPOD
11:45 12:45

Optimising Asthma Care and What Sustainable Care Really Means

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

This session is sponsored by Chiesi and contains promotional content

Azhar Saleem, GpwER Respiratory Medicine, Clinical Lead - RightBreathe
13:00 13:45

Managing asthma in the era of biologics

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Pujan H Patel MD, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer - Severe Asthma Service, Royal Brompton Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS FT and Imperial College
14:00 14:45

Diagnostic breathlessness pathways - now and in the future

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

This talk will cover breathlessness diagnosis and management from first presentation in primary care to specialist involvement using a symptom-based approach

Rachael Evans, Professor of Respiratory Medicine / Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician - University of Leicester
15:00 15:45

COPD and its development across the lifecourse

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

James Allinson, Respiratory Consultant and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer - Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London
16:00 16:45

Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS): expanding treatments for reducing lungs in COPD

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Lung volume reduction (LVR) is a clinically proven and NICE approved therapy for reducing breathlessness in COPD. Has has traditionally been performed as lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS but minima ...

Tom Ward, Clinical Lecturer - NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (Respiratory)
16:45 16:50

Chair's Closing Remarks

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Mukesh Singh, GPwSI, Respiratory Lead, GP Partner - Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent ICB & Horse Fair Practice Group.

09:25 09:30

Chair's Opening Remarks

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Dr David Farmer, Locum GP and Medical Director - ADAPt Pharmacy
09:30 10:00

Multimorbidity in people with respiratory conditions

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Beverley Bostock, Advanced Nurse Practitioner in long-term conditions - Mann Cottage Surgery
10:15 11:00

OCS-sparing approaches - when and how to assess for adrenal insufficiency

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Mark Gurnell, Professor of Clinical Endocrinology & Clinical Lead for Endocrine Services - University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals Trust
11:15 11:45

Update on the BTS clinical statement on chronic cough

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Sean Parker, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Chair - Northumbria Healthcare Trust and BTS Cough Specialist Advisory Group
12:00 12:30

COVID-19 and respiratory disease post Pandemic: What is the future for COVID-19 vaccination?

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Join Dr Catherine Heffernan as we look at learnings from last year and look forward to the next COVID-19 season. Is COVID-19 still relevant? How can we help our patients? And who should we prioritise?

Catherine Heffernan, Consultant in Public Health - South-West London Integrated Care System
12:40 13:10

OSA management-Updates for clinicians

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Sandip Banerjee, Consultant Respiratory & Sleep Physician - Medway Maritime Hospital
13:15 14:00

CYP asthma transformation pilot: making service improvements in secondary care

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Suzanne Bailey, ICS Children and Young People's Clinical Respiratory Lead - Surrey Heartlands ICS
14:15 15:00

Advances in the prevention and treatment of bronchiolitis of infancy

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Bronchiolitis of infancy is the commonest single cause of hospitalisation of babies in developed countries. Globally, Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus "RSV" is the most common killer of children in t ...

Calum Semple, Professor of Child Health and Outbreak Medicine and Consultant Physician - University of Liverpool and Alder Hey Children's Hospital Trust
15:15 15:45

Occupational lung disease: what you need to know.

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Jo Szram, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Occupational Lung Disease Service - Imperial College London
15:45 15:50

Chair's Closing Remarks

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Dr David Farmer, Locum GP and Medical Director - ADAPt Pharmacy

09:45 10:15

Staffordshire in Review - Home Oxygen & Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Respiratory Skills Theatre

This is a split session where Vicky and Sarah Richardson (Physiotherapist) will share service transformation and case studies with the audience, to describe how Staffordshire community services are me ...

Mukesh Singh, GPwSI, Respiratory Lead, GP Partner - Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent ICB & Horse Fair Practice Group.

Vicky Campbell, Nurse Consultant – Respiratory - Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Sarah Richardson, Programme manager - MPFT
10:15 10:45

Pulmonary rehabilitation - challenges and successes with Staffordshire's approach

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Mukesh Singh, GPwSI, Respiratory Lead, GP Partner - Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent ICB & Horse Fair Practice Group.

Vicky Campbell, Nurse Consultant – Respiratory - Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Sarah Richardson, Programme manager - MPFT
11:00 11:30

The impact of MART and AIR therapy

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Exploring the impact of Anti-Inflammatory Reliever Therapy (AIR) and Maintenance and Reliever Therapy (MART) therapy. Preeti will be joined by Julie Lennon, an associate from Education for Health to d ...

Preeti Minhas, Director of Clinical Development - Education for Health
11:45 12:15

Occupational asthma.

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Overview of occupational asthma and the tests that can be used to help diagnose it, through to management of the affected worker.

Vicky Moore, Clinical Scientist / Deputy Service Lead for Respiratory - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire / University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust
12:30 13:00

Efficiently delivering aerosol to the lungs

Respiratory Skills Theatre

As clinicians involved in respiratory care, it is important we understand the factors that impact the success of inhaled treatment. Today we'll discuss what factors impact efficiency of nebulisation, ...

Catherine Brown, Specialist Cystic Fibrosis Physiotherapist - West Midlands Adult CF Centre
13:15 13:45

The jigsaw approach to asthma diagnosis

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Dermot Ryan, Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh - Director, International Primary Care Respiratory Group
14:00 14:30

Optimising the management of acute severe exacerbations of COPD

Respiratory Skills Theatre

In this session, the well-established and novel evidence for NIV in acute exacerbations of COPD will be reviewed , as well as areas where acute NIV delivery may be improved. There will be an overview ...

Eui-Sik SUH, Consultant Respiratory Physician Deputy Director, Medical Education Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer - Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
14:45 15:15

Paediatric asthma – FeNO and spirometry

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Paediatric asthma - FeNO and Spirometry

Joe Madge, Head of Paediatric Respiratory Physiology - Leicester Children's Hospital
15:30 16:00

COPD: all in the mind?

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Beverley Bostock, Advanced Nurse Practitioner in long-term conditions - Mann Cottage Surgery
16:15 16:45

The new NICE Asthma guidelines. Is there a place for FeNO?

Respiratory Skills Theatre

This session will give an introduction to the new Asthma guidelines and how FeNO will play a part. This will include the use of case studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of FeNO testing for the ma ...

Beverley Bostock, Advanced Nurse Practitioner in long-term conditions - Mann Cottage Surgery

09:15 09:45

More Events, Faster Results: what is Nomics' augmented polygraphy ?

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Discover the potential of Nomics' Augmented Polygraphy, a new way to diagnose sleep-related breathing disorders that combines polygraphy with jaw movement tracking and advanced decision support tools. ...

Nicolas Stefenatto, Medical Advisor - Nomics
10:00 10:45

Pulmonary hypertension: picking the right patients to refer and treat and how

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Luke Howard, Consultant Pulmonologist - Imperial College Healthcare Trust
11:00 11:45

Threats to the respiratory health of children and young people

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Ian Sinha, CONSULTANT RESPIRATORY PAEDIATRICIAN - Alder Hey Children's Hospital
12:45 13:15

Buteyko breathing techniques in clinical practice

Respiratory Skills Theatre

We aim to introduce breathing pattern disorders, how to recognise them in clinical practice and review treatment concepts. We will cover a range of Buteyko Breathing Techniques and link them to clinic ...

Claire Hepworth, Clinical Specialist Respiratory Paediatric Physiotherapist - Buteyko Breathing Association

Charlotte Wells, Clinical Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist - British Buteyko Association
13:45 14:15

Spirometry and FeNO

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Spirometry and FeNo -quality assured performance and interpretation.

Rosie Fillingham, Clinical Scientist Respiratory and Sleep - University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Asia Awal, Senior Respiratory Physiologist - --
14:30 15:00

Exploring inhaler technique and environmental impact

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Preeti Minhas, Director of Clinical Development - Education for Health
15:15 15:45

Lung function and targeted health checks.

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Joanna Purvis, Clinical Service Manager for Cardiac, Respiratory, sleep and upper GI Physiology services - George Elliot Hospital

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