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REGISTER: thelimbus.co.uk/respiratory/tu… @GOLD_COPD has released its 2026 report with the latest evidence-based guidance on preventing, diagnosing & managing COPD. Learn what it means for your practice in our webinar hosted by Prof David Halpin. @sarah_elkin1

Watch the webinar: thelimbus.co.uk/respiratory/on… Missed our ERS 2025 highlights webinar? Here's an overview of the topics discussed in this insightful expert-led session. Click the link above to watch the full session at your own pace. @nikkismallcombe, @RichardJHewitt, @DrRJRussell

REGISTER: thelimbus.co.uk/respiratory/we… Join @DrRJRussell and an expert panel as they unpack highlights from ERS 2025 spotlighting key abstracts in asthma, COPD & ILD with discussion on how these developments could shape clinical practice in the UK. @nikkismallcombe @RichardJHewitt

Respiratory researchers will be able to access NHS data more quickly and easily within two years thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

Tackling modifiable risk factors such as obesity could make a noticeable dent in the expected rise in asthma cases over the next 25 years - international research thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

Hundreds of thousands of retired staff will be forced to wait up to another 20 months thelimbic.com/uk/nearly-1-1m…

One case involved a consultant who reported that a PA had “overruled” their request for a specific patient investigation thelimbic.com/uk/doctors-rep…

A man suffered a fatal stroke in hospital after his anticoagulant was suspended but not restarted because of a “complex, dynamic and interacting” array of clinical and system factors, an investigation has found thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

A new £20 payment for GPs who seek specialist advice about referrals starts this month, but the number of requests they make can be capped to protect local NHS budgets thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

The triple combination therapy has been authorised for use in CF patients aged six years and older who have specific mutations in the CFTR gene. thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

Dr Andrew Stanton said he hoped the findings would “start a conversation” within local services to ensure that ultrasound “is firmly embedded in their service and that it’s used by trained operators in a safe, appropriate way.” @BTSrespiratory thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

Children who exhibited a pattern of wheezing without infection between the ages of 3-36 months had a 17-33 times increased risk of developing asthma by age six. thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

Nearly 10,000 jobs are expected to be lost in the restructure, with savings of more than half a billion pounds a year redirected to frontline services thelimbic.com/uk/nhs-england…

The removal of a requirement for a High Court judge to approve assisted dying applications will leave doctors “unduly exposed” if the bill becomes law - Medical Defence Union thelimbic.com/uk/doctors-exp…

Respiratory physicians taking biopsies from patients with suspected lung cancer should get them “right first time” to help cut genomic testing delays - report @UKlungcancer @BTSrespiratory thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

Female doctors outnumber male doctors for the first time in the UK’s history, but most respiratory physicians are still men, according to GMC figures thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

The GMC has clarified that no doctor can escape past fitness-to-practise issues by changing their gender - after suggesting the opposite to a national newspaper @gmcuk @Telegraph thelimbic.com/uk/gmc-clarifi…

When a severe asthma patient transitions to regular specialist care, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their treatment reduce by 12–24%, a new study shows. thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

In the last decade, nearly two thirds of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis waited more than a year to see a specialist after reporting symptoms thelimbic.com/uk/respiratory…

Doctors whose careers are in jeopardy due to exam results botched by “human error” face an important deadline as medical bodies battle over what should happen to them thelimbic.com/uk/deadline-lo…