Audience: This webinar is aimed at healthcare professionals involved in the teaching and assessment of inhaler technique and those that prescribe or make respiratory treatment recommendations.
This webinar will cover:
- The advantages of inhaled therapy
- The issue of suboptimal inhaler technique and its impact on patients
- Common inhaler technique errors
- The types of inhaler devices: pMDI, DPI, soft mist
- Tailoring the device to the patient
- Teaching and assessing inhaler technique
- A brief overview of the guidelines around inhalers and goals of pharmacological management in asthma and COPD
- Reducing side effects
- The green agenda
- Useful resources
- Your questions answered
The webinar will be hosted via TEAMs. Your booking details will be shared with the training supplier, LR Respiratory, who will send out course information and joining link in advance of the session. They will provide you with the opportunity to test the link to ensure it is not blocked by firewalls and to download anything necessary. You will need a good internet connection and a microphone and webcam ideally.
Throughout the webinar you will be expected to contribute to discussion and will be able to contribute and ask questions using the ‘chat feature’.
This meeting will be supported by a pharma company – tbc. They will have not initiated this meeting and will have had no input into the content, programme or organisation of this educational meeting. At the start of the webinar, they will deliver a 10 minute promotional product presentation.
This course is for staff working within the Cornwall healthcare economy. We reserve the right to cancel any ineligible bookings. If you work outside Cornwall and are interested in this course, please email kernowhealthcic.workforce@nhs.net
Course Cost
This course is fully funded if your Practice subscribes to the Primary Care Education Programme. For non-members, an administrative charge of £30 (including VAT) applies.
If you need to cancel a booked place on a course, please do so giving sufficient notice for the place to be reallocated. As per our terms and conditions, we reserve the right to charge for places cancelled less than 5 working days prior to the course start (unless otherwise stated), or failure to take up the place on the day of the course. This applies to both members and non-members of the Primary Care Education Programme.