NHS Improvement Lung - Latest news 2 April - New asthma publication and case studies New Asthma publicationA new publication is now available: Improving adult asthma care: Emerging learning from the national improvement projects
Accurate diagnosis in suspected COPDAccess our new diagnosis webpages for everything you need to improve diagnostic services. The webpages include information about a good patient pathway, evidence, guidance, top tips, service models, case studies and lots more so that you can provide optimal services. Find out more...
Inhaled respiratory medication surveyWe are supporting the London Respiratory Team with a short survey on the knowledge that healthcare professionals have around inhaled respiratory medications. If you work in healthcare; whether clinical, managerial, respiratory or otherwise, please take a moment to complete the survey.
Six abstracts accepted for IPCRGNHS Improvement - Lung have had six abstracts accepted for the IPCRG conference in Edinburgh. Our Oxygen and COPD as a LTC workstream abstracts have been accepted as oral presentations; two project sites we have been working with in the Diagnosis and COPD as a LTC workstreams have been accepted for three oral presentations, and an Asthma project site has been accepted as a poster presentation. More information about this conference can be found on our events page. Lung eBulletin (Issue 17) now availableView the latest eBulletin and or past editions Four new publications View the latest publications from NHS Improvement - Lung Nutrition in COPD guidelinesThe Respiratory Healthcare Professional's Nutritional COPD Guideline has been designed to raise awareness of nutrition with respiratory health professionals and their COPD patients. Find out more... Online self-management support resource centreThe Health Foundation has launched a new online self management support resource centre. This provides information and practical tools that can be adopted and adapted locally to enable services and health professionals to develop their own self management support programmes. Find out more by visiting www.health.org.uk/sms Seek early diagnosis of COPD to slow its progressNews article from the NICE website
Find out more about the work of NHS Improvement - Lung For further information on the Lung Improvement Programme contact: Phil Duncan, Director of Lung Improvement
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