Resources

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• Consulation documents
• Publications
• Links and documents

Consultation documents

There are no consultations in progress at the moment.

Publications

• Respiratory Knowledge and Skills Framework 2020 (PDF, 2.11MB)
• ERS Position Papers on E-Cigs and Heated Tobacco Products, Education and Balance key to NZ Smokefree 2025 (PDF, 879 KB)
• ERS Position Paper on Heated Tobacco Products (PDF,  1.63MB)
• ERS Position Paper on Tobacco Harm Reduction (PDF,  6.92MB)
• 2015 National Respiratory Strategy - Asthma and Respiratory Foundation (PDF)
• The Impact of Respiratory Disease in NZ Update 2016 (PDF, 3.2MB)

Links and documents

COVID-19

• COVID-19 Disease in Children, Starship Hospital

Asthma guidelines

• NZ Adolescent and Adult Asthma Guidelines
• NZ Child Asthma Guidelines 
• GINA – Diagnosis and Management of Difficult-to-treat and Severe Asthma

Bronchiectasis guidelines

• Bronchiectasis guidelines – Starship Hospital

Chronic cough

• Chronic cough diagnosis and treatment – Adults and children
• Cough – Starship Hospital

COPD Guidelines

• New breathlessness guide
• NZ COPD Guidelines 2025
• NZ COPD Guidelines 2025 Update NZMJ 7 Nov 2025
• NZ COPD Guidelines 2025 Quick Reference guide

Cystic fibrosis

• Cystic fibrosis NZ
• Child and Youth Cystic Fibrosis Clinical Network

Interstitial lung disease

• BTS guideline 2008 
• ERS Whitebook
• Nice Guideline 2013
• Resource for patients and health professionals

Lung Cancer

• Nice Guideline 2019
• NZ standards for provision of care for lung Cancer

Obstructive sleep apnoea

• British guideline

Oxygen

• Adult Domiciliary Oxygen Therapy - Clinical Practice Guideline, 2014
• Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Oxygen Guidelines for Acute Oxygen Use in Adults
• Clinical use of pulse oximetry
• Oxygen therapy - paediatrics
• High flow nasal prong therapy – Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
• High flow – Starship Hospital

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Australia and New Zealand Pulmonary Rehabilitation guidelines

Respiratory websites

• The Thoracic Society of Australia and NZ
• The British Thoracic Society      
• NICE Guidelines
• The European Respiratory Society (ERS)
• The American Thoracic Society (ATS)

Smoking cessation

• Smokefree
• Smokefree nurses
• Champix
• Quit.org and Quitline
• NZ smoking cessation guidlelines
• Vaping
• E-cigarettes

Spirometry

• Training and tools
• Spirometry in practice

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis Guidelines for Tuberculosis control in New Zealand 2010

Public offices/charities

• Asthma and respiratory foundation
• Te Whatu Ora | Health New Zealand
• Cochrane NZ
• Asthma New Zealand
• Heath Navigator
• Lung foundation Australia
• Lung foundation NZ
• National asthma council (Australia)

Further reading

• BMJ
• Thorax
• Chest Journal
• Best Practice Advocacy Centre
• Research review
• Advance Care Planning
• Palliative care handbook
• More websites are listed at the back of the Knowledge and Skills Framework.

Inhaler resources

• Inhaler chart (PDF, 415KB)

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