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14 July 2026

Reflecting on 50 Accredited Services: A Milestone for PRSAS
Reaching 50 accredited pulmonary rehabilitation services is a significant milestone for PRSAS and an opportunity to reflect on the programme's journey over the past eight years. Maria Buxton, initially starting… Read more...

14 July 2026

Celebrating the 50th PRSAS Accredited Service: A Conversation University Hospitals Birmingham
University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) recently became the 50th service to achieve PRSAS accreditation. We spoke with Gemma Atkins, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Lead, about the service's accreditation journey, the challenges they faced,… Read more...

26 June 2026

Using PRSAS to raise awareness
As a part of PR awareness week, we had a conversation with Zoe Styles, from Nottingham CityCare Integrated Respiratory and Home Oxygen Service to discuss how they achieved accreditation, and… Read more...

26 June 2026

Using PRSAS to Influence your Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service
As a part of our pulmonary rehabilitation awareness week celebration, we spoke with Nikki from West Essex Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service to discuss how she used their service’s involvement in the… Read more...

1 January 2026

Join our team of PRSAS assessors!
PRSAS accreditation is a supportive process of evaluating the quality of clinical services against established standards. It promotes improvement through highlighting areas of best practice and areas for change, encouraging… Read more...

16 December 2025

PRSAS 2025 wrap-up
2025 has been one of the busiest and most successful years yet for the PRSAS programme, with incredible progress made by our community of services. 23% of registered services are… Read more...

24 November 2025

PRSAS accreditation standards 2025 launch
PRSAS are launching updated accreditation standards for pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) services across the UK and the Republic of Ireland on 1 December 2025. The PRSAS programme aims to help PR services… Read more...

4 September 2025

PRSAS standards review 2025 – public consultation
All accreditation programmes within the Royal College of Physicians are required to review their accreditation standards every 5 years to ensure that they remain relevant, up to date and ensure… Read more...

5 August 2025

Supporting Gloucestershire Respiratory Service in achieving pulmonary rehabilitation services accreditation
Thank-you to the team at SCW for sharing their experience in supporting Gloucestershire in starting their PRSAS journey, read more on the SCW website. What was the challenge? The Royal College… Read more...

7 July 2025

Frimley ICS – Health inequalities
This project began as part of our response to the NHS Long Term Plan, which included increasing access to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) services. We started by looking at data of… Read more...

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