Tests for patients with suspected respiratory disease and heart failure

This guidance advises general practice, providers of respiratory diagnostics, pathology laboratories and integrated care boards on the provision of GP direct access pathways for adult patients with symptoms indicative of chronic respiratory diseases (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and heart failure.

Keep up to date

Sign up to receive our daily news alerts straight to your inbox. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter containing a summary of the week’s news, blog and vote on our poll.

Weekly Newsletter

Daily news updates

Have a discussion

Help keep the conversation going between meetings by creating a forum to hold discussions with your members. It’s an easy way to manage and communicate with members.

Create a network

Create a network to share documents, knowledge and best practice with your colleagues. Set up a network to keep in touch with other people in your organisation or with shared interest groups across organisational boundaries.

Networks can be open to all or available only to a closed group defined by the administrator.

Join or create a network here.