Respiratory Management in Primary Care

Steve Holmes, Co-opted member, Immediate Past Chair, Primary Care Respiratory Society UK Education Lead Steve is a busy GP and an Associate Director in GP Education in the Severn Deanery. He is co-chair of IMPRESS and a member of the British Asthma Guideline Group Steering Committee. He is also involved in the Programme Board for the National Service Framework for COPD, and is supporting Respiratory Leaders programmes in the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK. Steve is a member of the RCGP College Council and Professional Development Board and has other involvements in GP appraisal and GP performance. He remains passionate about the quality care for patients and the value of primary care. Jane Scullion, Respiratory Nurse ConsultantJane Scullion, based in the Leicester area, has been a Respiratory Nurse Consultant for more than ten years and has over twenty years of experience in working with people with respiratory conditions in a variety of roles. Appointed on a sessional basis by SHA East Midlands as the clinical lead for long term conditions she has more recently been appointed as one of the respiratory clinical leads to support the implementation of the COPD National Clinical Strategy. In her clinical role she works with many chronic respiratory conditions, in particular, people with difficult asthma, COPD and those with interstitial lung disease. Jane has a particular interest in the psychology of chronic illness and end of life issues and of the impact of these on patients and their carers. Jane works across primary and secondary care and is keen to see the artificial divide between these improved in the interests of patients and services developed rationally. She has a professional leadership role with the community respiratory nursing team and the home oxygen team and belongs to the leaders faculty at PCRS. As the chair of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Nurse Advisory Group, alongside her colleagues, she provides input into the society and ensures there is a nursing voice. She is also the represented on the BTS Council. In addition, she sits on the IMPRESS committee a joint working party of BTS and PCRS looking at service developments and advising the commissioning process and with the Department of Health looking at workface issues important for nurse with a changing political landscape and ways of working. A facilitator and trustee for Respiratory Education UK for many years she has also been appointed as a trustee of PCRS-UK and is keen to support the organisation in this role.