This month highlights the importance of primary care research and experience that can inform respiratory guidelines and patient self-management: we congratulate several IPCRG colleagues on their career progression; introduce our latest digital magazine for people with COPD focused on the challenging problem of recognising and managing flare-ups, and publicise two opportunities to support a new WHO asthma guideline. We also look forward to our meeting in Brașov and, before that, on 2 April, a clinical case-study based webinar on asthma and obesity.