THE COUNTDOWN TO RESPIRATORY PROFESSIONAL CARE IS ON!
Advancing excellence in respiratory medicine across secondary care: where expertise meets innovation
Respiratory Professional Care returns for its fifth edition, 9-10 October 2024, at NEC Birmingham. The conference provides free accredited CPD for all members of the respiratory community, including essential clinical updates, examples of best practice and cutting-edge innovations covering all major respiratory diseases. We partner with world-class speakers, our agenda is powered by a high-level advisory board and additional expertise is provided by leading associations in the respiratory space such as PCRS, ARTP, and BSACI.
What to expect at Respiratory Professional Care
Consisting of three theatres and a brand-new poster zone, the programme will explore everything to support the sustainable recovery of respiratory services, from early and accurate diagnosis, service innovation and tackling health inequalities, to long Covid, severe asthma, COPD, Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), and pulmonary rehabilitation.
The exhibition floor at Respiratory Professional Care presents the UK's largest showcase of products, innovations, and solutions for elevating the provision of respiratory medicine within secondary care, with more than 75 companies on hand to demonstrate how your department can increase efficiencies and improve patient outcomes.
What's new for this year?
As the challenges in respiratory medicine continue to evolve, so must Respiratory Professional Care. This year's revitalised approach to the event includes:
- A more comprehensive focus on secondary care, including full suite of disease areas: COPD, breathlessness, sleep apnoea, asthma, severe asthma, pneumonia, air pollution, occupational lung disease, children's respiratory health, and Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD).
- A new focus on allergies and collaboration with BSACI.
- Increased focus on sleep medicine and sleep apnoea.
- High profile speakers, including:
- Jonathan Fuld, NHSE national clinical director for respiratory disease
- Mike Crooks, renowned respiratory physician and senior clinical lecturer
The UK's respiratory health crisis
12 million people in the UK have a respiratory condition. This number is three times larger than the number of people who have diabetes. Nearly 8 million people have a cardiovascular condition. 500,000 people each year are diagnosed with cancer. After heart and circulatory diseases, respiratory illnesses combined are the third biggest killer in the UK, largely due to smoking, air pollution, and healthcare inequalities.
There has never been a more urgent need to bring together the UK's respiratory healthcare professionals with key opinion leaders in respiratory medicine to gain valuable insights into emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities in the field for the betterment of the nation's population.
Reasons to attend Respiratory Professional Care
Patient-centric focus on respiratory medicine
Respiratory Professional Care emphasises a patient-centric approach to respiratory care, highlighting strategies for patient education, engagement, and empowerment to improve treatment adherence and outcomes.
Expert speakers and presenters
Respiratory Professional Care features experts speakers and presenters from various disciplines within respiratory care, including respiratory physicians, nurses, therapists, and researchers, providing valuable insights and perspectives on a variety of key topics.
A wealth of networking opportunities
Innovative products and services
Those who can attend for free include:
- Clinical directors
- Integrated Care Board (ICB) members
- Physiologists
- Physiotherapists
- Pulmonologists
- Respiratory consultants / specialists
- Respiratory specialist nurses
- Respiratory physiotherapists
- Advanced clinical practitioners
- Advanced nurse practitioners
- GP partners
- Pharmacists / Clinical pharmacists
- Ward managers
- GPwERs / GPwSIs
- Any other kind of doctor (including consultants / specialists)
- Matrons
- Ward sisters
- Practice nurses
- Occupational therapists
- Post-Graduate Student GPs / Doctors / Nurses
- Academics
- Other relevant ARRS roles
Claim your free pass worth £695+VAT
We are delighted to be able to offer a limited number of free delegate passes (worth £695+ VAT), to allow healthcare and allied healthcare professionals to attend Respiratory Professional Care. Your delegate badge will give you access to both the exhibition and the conference programme at Respiratory Professional Care as well as its co-located event, Best Practice Birmingham.
Respiratory Professional Care is dedicated to providing free access to education for healthcare professionals and other related decision makers (ORDM) working within the UK's public and private healthcare systems in the field of respiratory medicine.
Key topic themes
- Severe asthma and new asthma guidelines around pathway and referral to tertiary sites
- Asthma: guidelines on types of inhaler, overuse of SABA, new AIR/MART combinations
- COPD management and use of new biologic treatments
- Ten years sinces NRAD - review of asthma deaths
- Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) - new therapies available including anti-fibrotics and immunosuppressants
- Tobacco dependency - new BTS guidance, including vaping
- Management of cough - new BTS recommended pathway
- Pneumonia - new report
- Allergies, including triggers for asthma
- Children's respiratory illness, including air pollution and paediatric asthma
- Breathlessness pathway
- Target lung health checks, including cancer screening and early detection of other diseases
Respiratory Keynote Theatre
Respiratory Professional Care Conference Programme
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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Respiratory Keynote TheatreOral 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 ...
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreTobacco 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 ...
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreThis is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreThis 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 ...
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreThis is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreThis session will review the main reasons individuals develop breathing difficulties during sporting activity.
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreWe 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 ...
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreEvery 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 ...
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreThis is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only
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Respiratory Keynote TheatreWe 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 ...
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Respiratory Clinical Theatre
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Respiratory Clinical TheatrePulmonary 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 ...
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Respiratory Clinical TheatreThis session is sponsored by Chiesi and contains promotional content
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Respiratory Clinical TheatreThis talk will cover breathlessness diagnosis and management from first presentation in primary care to specialist involvement using a symptom-based approach
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Respiratory Clinical TheatreLung 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 ...
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Respiratory Clinical TheatreJoin 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?
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Respiratory Clinical TheatreBronchiolitis 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 ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatreThis 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 ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatreExploring 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 ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatreOverview of occupational asthma and the tests that can be used to help diagnose it, through to management of the affected worker.
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Respiratory Skills TheatreAs 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, ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatreIn 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 ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatrePaediatric asthma - FeNO and Spirometry
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Respiratory Skills TheatreThis 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 ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatreDiscover 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. ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatreWe 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 ...
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Respiratory Skills TheatreSpirometry and FeNo -quality assured performance and interpretation.
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Specialist educational content delivered by expert speakers and presenters
Respiratory Professional Care provides educational content tailored to respiratory professionals, including updates on the latest research, clinical guidelines, and best practices in respiratory care.
Our programme features expert speakers and presenters from various disciplines within respiratory care, including respiratory physicians, nurses, therapists, and researchers, providing valuable insights and perspectives on a range of key topics.
The UK's largest showcase of respiratory healthcare products and solutions
Visitors to Respiratory Professional Care also benefit from free access to the largest showcase of innovative products, technologies, and services relevant to respiratory care, enabling them to explore new advancements and solutions to improve patient outcomes.
Testimonials
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‘’I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and got so much out of it. I learnt a huge amount about new topics such as long Covid and was interested in hearing the latest up to date opinions on drug therapies and treatment from consultants and experts in the field of respiratory. I left the conference feeling highly motivated and inspired.’’
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'’Fantastic experience, so enjoyable. Meeting representatives, networking and gaining information made me nearly believe Covid was a forgotten time.’’
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‘’Excellent, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great opportunity to network face to face and to hear brilliant speakers. The agenda was packed to I was busy and engaged in sessions all day, thank you very much’'
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‘’Excellent conference with a range of knowledgeable speakers. Topics were informative and relevant.’'
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'’Very informative, great sessions and talks. Really enjoyable day with plenty of learning opportunities.’’