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In November The Royal Free Hospital hosted an innovative programme, themed around Respiratory and Rheumatological overlap conditions. Many thanks to Dr James Goldring, Dr Richard Stratton and everyone at the Royal Free for co-ordinating and contributing to the day. Many thanks to Dr Catherine Rang for sharing notes from the day. Interstitial lung disease classification and management Dr Elizabeth Renzoni, started … Continue reading
Immunology is an area of the curriculum which is relevant to a growing number of areas of day to day practice in Respiratory medicine, but does not often receive explicit attention in the training programme. In view of this, Dr David Jackson has put together a one day workshop on ‘Immunology for chest physicians’. The aim … Continue reading
Please join us for the Breathing Matters Charity Concert on Friday 11th December, at 7.30pm at St Paul’s Church Covent Garden, a beautiful venue right on the Plaza. The choir is the Holst singers, who we are reliably informed are fantastic and also famous! There will be a chance to sing along to a few … Continue reading
In late October we met at UCLH for a day dedicated to ILD. Thank you to Dr Joanna Porter for putting on such an engaging and relevant programme, and for inviting excellent external speakers. And well done to Alex Mackay for live tweeting the day. Liver failure We started the day in slightly unfamiliar territory, below the … Continue reading
An exciting opportunity is available for someone to gain a one year experience in research working with Respiratory Teams that make up part of the UCLH Biomedical Research Centre. The post holder will work as a Clinical Research Associate within UCL Respiratory Medicine. The focus of the research programme is to promote Translational Research Partnership Studies but … Continue reading
In June we congregated at the Whittington for a day focused on smoking cessation. Introduction Dr Myra Stern welcomed us and set the scene by giving some context to the quit smoking debate and reframing smoking cessation as treatment for tobacco dependance. She reminded us that there are diverse views on smoking, and prominent characters who are vocal in … Continue reading
In June we were welcomed to the Whittington Hospital for a day on breathlessness. We were joined by colleagues including respiratory specialist nurses, physiotherapists, specialist pharmacists, members of NHS England and a doctor from the Netherlands. A big tick in the multidisciplinary team curriculum box! Breathlessness vs respiratory failure: what matters to patients and respiratory clinicians? … Continue reading
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