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The UK’s number one event bringing together the whole respiratory team across secondary care. Respiratory Professional Care returns to NEC Birmingham, 9-10 October 2024

More FREE educational content!
More opportunities to earn FREE accredited CPD!
More exhibiting companies!
More innovative products and solutions!

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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.

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Video highlights from last year's event

75+

EXHIBITING COMPANIES

200+

PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS

90+

CONFERENCE SESSIONS

100+

EXPERT SPEAKERS

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

Healthcare 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.

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Reasons to attend Respiratory Professional Care

Patient-centric focus on respiratory medicine

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.

Interactive workshops and seminars

Interactive workshops and seminars

You can participate in interactive workshops, seminars, and hands-on training sessions covering a wide range of topics, from diagnostic techniques to therapeutic interventions, enhancing their knowledge and skills in respiratory care.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits

Respiratory Professional Care offers free accredited CPD credits or certification opportunities for all attendees, allowing you to fulfill your professional development requirements and stay abreast of advancements in respiratory medicine.
Expert speakers and presenters

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

A wealth of networking opportunities

Respiratory Professional Care offers free networking opportunities for healthcare professionals, allowing you to connect with peers and key opinion leaders in respiratory care, share experiences, and establish collaborations to enhance patient care.
Innovative products and services

Innovative products and services

The accompanying exhibition space at Respiratory Professional Care provides attendees with access to the UK's largest showcase of innovative products, technologies, and services relevant to respiratory care, enabling you to explore new advancements and solutions to improve patient outcomes.

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.

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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 Professional Care programme theatres in more detail

To find out more about what kind of educational content you can expect from Respiratory Professional Care, click on the relevant image below:
Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Respiratory Keynote Theatre

Gain essential updates on major respiratory diseases, such as COPD, severe asthma and ILD. Hear from NHS England on their plans to support the faster and more accurate diagnosis of respiratory diseases.
Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Respiratory Clinical Theatre

Get clear insights, updates and examples of good practice from leading speakers across secondary care on important topics such as breathlessness, asthma, COPD, Long Covid and occupational lung diseases.
Respiratory Skills Theatre

Respiratory Skills Theatre

Scope out the latest technology and devices available for you to improve and advance the patient's diagnosis and journey through the respiratory pathway.

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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09 Oct 2024
  1. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
  2. 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 ...
  3. 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 ...
  4. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
    Advocating for elevated patient outcomes for severe eosinophilic asthma patients
    This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only
  5. 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 ...
  6. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
    Transforming COPD care: Connected care: collaborative strategies for transforming COPD management
    This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only
  7. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
  8. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
    This session will review the main reasons individuals develop breathing difficulties during sporting activity.
  9. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
  10. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
10 Oct 2024
  1. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
  2. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
    When is it time for a biologic? Live severe asthma patient case review
    This is a promotional symposium sponsored and organised by AstraZeneca, intended for UK HCPs only
  6. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
  7. 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 ...
  8. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
  9. Respiratory Keynote Theatre
09 Oct 2024
  1. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  2. 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 ...
  3. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  4. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
    Optimising Asthma Care and What Sustainable Care Really Means
    This session is sponsored by Chiesi and contains promotional content
  5. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  6. 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
  7. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  8. 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 ...
  9. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
10 Oct 2024
  1. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  2. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  3. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  4. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  5. 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?
  6. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  7. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  8. 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 ...
  9. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
  10. Respiratory Clinical Theatre
09 Oct 2024
  1. 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 ...
  2. Respiratory Skills Theatre
  3. 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 ...
  4. 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.
  5. 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, ...
  6. Respiratory Skills Theatre
  7. 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 ...
  8. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Paediatric asthma - FeNO and Spirometry
  9. Respiratory Skills Theatre
  10. 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 ...
10 Oct 2024
  1. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    More Events, Faster Results: what is Nomics' augmented polygraphy ?
    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. ...
  2. Respiratory Skills Theatre
  3. Respiratory Skills Theatre
  4. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Buteyko breathing techniques in clinical practice
    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 ...
  5. Respiratory Skills Theatre
    Spirometry and FeNO
    Spirometry and FeNo -quality assured performance and interpretation.
  6. Respiratory Skills Theatre
  7. Respiratory Skills Theatre

 

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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.

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Testimonials

  • ‘’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.’’
    Respiratory Nurse Specialist
    East Cheshire NHS Trust
  • '’Fantastic experience, so enjoyable. Meeting representatives, networking and gaining information made me nearly believe Covid was a forgotten time.’’
    Acp Respiratory
    AGH NHS trust
  • ‘’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’'
    Respiratory Nurse and Trainer
    Self Employed
  • ‘’Excellent conference with a range of knowledgeable speakers. Topics were informative and relevant.’'
    Trainee ACP
    Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust
  • '’Very informative, great sessions and talks. Really enjoyable day with plenty of learning opportunities.’’
    Occupational Therapist
    Birmingham St Mary's Hospice