Thank you to the organisers and speakers at the COPD UK 2025 conference! What an inspiring and thought provoking couple of days 🫁

50% of COPD patients are classed as moderate and within this group, they are 7 times more likely to die from a cardiovascular cause vs a respiratory cause. #NRLF

The incoming ban on disposable vapes is just days away (1st June). Find out more in our blog... ash.org.uk/media-centre...

Thank you to everyone who attended the #COPDVoices launch at Parliament today! 🗣️ Great opportunity to highlight the needs, challenges and reality of people living with COPD and their carers. Special thanks to @thomassue.bsky.social for organising 🎉

What a powerful and humbling day today launching the #COPDVoices campaign. Patients and carers have spoken and we need to listen. Time to focus on getting early diagnosis, equitable access and management right. It’s a matter of life and breath.

#COPDvoices the patients and carers have spoken. It’s our duty to listen. @monabafadhel.bsky.social @nikkismallcombe.bsky.social @thomassue.bsky.social

What a great turn out and a fantastic day of interactions with @nikkismallcombe.bsky.social at the Houses of Parliament today launching the “COPD voices report” led by @monabafadhel.bsky.social @thomassue.bsky.social

Thrilled to launch “COPD Voices: A Matter of Life and Breath” today, highlighting the lived experience of people living with COPD and their carers. #COPDVoices 🫁

As someone working in COPD research, I’m thrilled to be part of the the launch of COPD Voices: A Matter of Life & Breath. Behind every stat, like “a COPD exacerbation every 20 seconds in the UK” is a real person, a real story. It’s time to listen and push for change. #COPDVoices #TimeForChange

A big day today with the launch of the “COPD Voices: A matter of life & breath” detailing the lived experiences of people w COPD 🫁

Excited to attend my first @pintofscience.uk 🤓 🧪 🧫 #mykindofpint #pint25

@nikkismallcombe.bsky.social demonstrated the medical education opportunities in Respiratory

A great talk on leadership & imposter syndrome this evening by Dr Prina Ruparelia. Excellent points on focussing on strengths & celebrating successes. ⭐️ thank you so much.

Join Professor Mona Bafadhel to learn more about the future of COPD management in the latest instalment of RESP webinars. These free sessions are suitable for all respiratory professionals across the multi disciplinary team. Book your space 👉 brit-thoracic.uk/RESPMay25

Very pleased to have started my new role as a Clinical Research Fellow in COPD at King’s College London! So excited for this next chapter and nice to be back at GKT 🫁 #respisbest #COPD #PhDlife

Puffers are red Bloaters are blue Check target sats When prescribing O2 #MedSky #ValentinesDay

🚨A very timely & important webinar 🚨 Early Diagnosis & Management of COPD 🫁 ⭐️ THIS Wednesday 6pm ⭐️ Fab speakers: Dr James Allinson, Prof Rachel Jordan and Prof Mona Bafadhel ⭐️ Free www.rsm.ac.uk/events/respi...

I'm chairing the FREE @roysocmed.bsky.social webinar on early diagnosis/management in COPD Timely topic with fantastic speakers (Mona Bafadhel, James Allinson and Rachel Jordan) @rsmresp.bsky.social www.rsm.ac.uk/events/respi...

The deadline for this has been extended to 10/02 Great opportunity to win a national prize, especially in the Registrar category which has had fewer submissions compared with the others! @roysocmed.bsky.social

For anyone thinking about applying to Respiratory medicine 🫁, I spoke to MedCourse about the best way to maximise your application! Hope it’s helpful ! medcourse.co.uk/how-to-get-i...

We planned to restart #ThoracicThursday Qs last week but life got in the way. To make up for this, we've updated our @brainscape.bsky.social deck with more Qs! Get them for free here: www.brainscape.com/p/4MNSM-LH-C... And we really will be back with all new questions this week! #RespEd #LungSky

Kicked off our Resp SCE Series yesterday looking at Occupational Lung Disease, Lung Transplantation and Pulmonary Hypertension. Thank you to our fabulous speakers for a great set of talks. Next week we will be looking at Bronchiectasis , TB and Sleep Medicine ! 🫁 #respsce

The @rsmresp.bsky.social SCE Course starts THIS Thursday - don’t miss out ! 🫁 ⭐️A 10 week virtual course focussing on key areas of the Resp SCE curriculum ⭐️Claimable through study budget ⭐️Fantastic feedback every year ✍️ Sign up here : www.rsm.ac.uk/events/respi...

Hello! Are you new here? Welcome! We share education & research on Respiratory medicine. Each week we share a quiz question in the style of the respiratory SCE on #ThoracicThursday. We share answers & explanations at the weekend. Join us!

Thank you so much @BTSrespiratory for a wonderful #BTSWinter2024; it’s been a blast!💥 🫁 Until next year ! 👋

Maxed out capacity for Women in Respiratory 💜 Great discussion, so much food for thought especially on mentorship and putting ourselves forward for opportunities Ladies, ask the first question at conferences! #BTSWinter2024

Fantastic session on Supporting Women in Respiratory Medicine , thank you so much to @tasha_rupani and the panel. So powerful 🫁#BTSWinter2024 @BTSrespiratory

Loved presenting our work looking at “TLHC - a missed opportunity to confirm COPD Diagnosis?” ; huge thanks to my wonderful bosses Dr Richa Singh, Dr Ketan Patel and Dr Steph Uys for their support 🫁✨ #BTSWinter2024 #respisbest

A great first day at #BTSWinterConference and a wonderful dinner with the NECL Resp SpRs ❤️🫁 #respisbest

Follow us to find out about the exciting respiratory education events organised by the Royal Society of Medicine's Respiratory section! We will also share other brilliant respiratory education resources For more information about our section: www.rsm.ac.uk/sections/res...

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