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Chronic Respiratory Diagnosis in Primary Care

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People attend family medicine services with problems, not diagnoses.  The value that family medicine adds is to use questions and clinical reasoning to include and exclude diagnoses. IPCRG's contribution is to guide primary care clinicians about how to do that for people with respiratory symptoms. These resources have been co-developed and reviewed by experienced primary care clinicians from different settings, with access to different resources.  

Desktop Helper No.15 - The ‘jigsaw puzzle’ approach to building a diagnostic picture of asthma in primary care over time

Desktop Helper No. 14 - Quick guide to spirometry

Desktop Helper No. 4 - Helping patients quit tobacco - 3rd edition

25 May 2023

How widely is testing for COVID being undertaken and when should we consider testing clinically?

IPCRG COVID-19 and respiratory Q&A

Peak Flow resources

Spirometry Simplified

Certified e-learning course for primary care with in-person masterclass and portfolio assessment with personalised support
29 Oct 2025

Breaths 1.1 Asthma Diagnosis: Adults and Adolescents

IPCRG
Training
29 Oct 2025

Breaths 2.1 Rhinitis Diagnosis

IPCRG
Training
30 Oct 2025

Breaths 5.2 Earlier Diagnosis of COPD

IPCRG
Training
30 Oct 2025

Breaths 5.3 Interpreting Spirometry in Primary Care

IPCRG
Training

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