🆕 - our paper to design and implement a tool to guide inhaler selection at the point of discharge for hospitalised exacerbation of #COPD has now been published in ERS publications ERJ Open Research.

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Lung Disease and Social Justice – COPD as a Manifestation of Structural Violence. o/a atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rc… ATS Blue Journal /n

We need nurses working in respiratory settings visiting respiratory patients at home to give their views about second hand smoke. Please complete/share with your nursing colleagues.
Please complete the survey here survey.napier.ac.uk/n/zz8hc.aspx

The most wonderful thing about conferences, alongside cutting edge & practice changing science, is the opportunity to catch up with friends & mentors

Team Resp really is the absolute best
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#RespIsBest #WomenInSTEM #BTSWinter2023 #WomenInMedicine #WomenInScience

Proud to have been awarded a highly commended award for our data driven transformation award for LADS Imperial College Health Partners South East London ICS Vizify @HealthierNWL darush attar-zadeh

#Stoptober begins this week - the perfect opportunity to help smokers quit. It is much easier to stop smoking with the right support.
Helpful resources are available on the NHS England: bit.ly/3PSN92M and Respiratory Futures: bit.ly/45mWIM9 websites.

WSIC fully supports #AskAboutAsthma week! Our range of Asthma dashboards - Asthma Radar, London Asthma Decision Support Tool (LADS) are here to help clinicians easily identify those asthmatic people (from all age groups), whose care needs optimising.

Please don’t use pictures of SABA inhalers for asthma. Regular use induces attacks, increases admissions and deaths. open.spotify.com/episode/2oTqMz…

COPD is massively overdiagnosed in people with bronchiectasis - many patients have the label and have no airflow obstruction or have never smoked
Almost half of COPD diagnoses do not meet objective criteria in nearly 1700 European patients in EMBARC
Eva Polverino #ERSCongress

In patients with moderate to very severe COPD and a history of exacerbation, 1 year treatment with doxycycline does not reduce exacerbation rate compared to placebo. However, patients with FEV1<50% or low blood eosinophils may benefit doi.org/10.1164/rccm.2… ATS Blue Journal

Better treatment and care for lung conditions like COPD starts with an accurate and timely diagnosis. Great article from PulseToday below which highlights the lack of spirometry testing in England, ahead of Asthma + Lung UK's upcoming report.

We're now playing a video of our 'virtual wards' – a development that illustrates the NHS's renewed impetus, accelerated by the pandemic, for working more collaboratively to provide better care, for more patients, more efficiently.

Watch this video: youtube.com/watch?v=0DpTGW…

Our new report #BreathingUnequal has revealed that nearly half of the lowest earners surveyed said they couldn’t afford to pay for prescriptions.

The cost of living is doing irreparable damage to people with lung conditions. We are calling on the Government to take action now.

“Harnessing the power of health data will not only transform our nation’s health but help shape the future of the NHS.'

Dr Erik Mayer, director of our Digital Collaboration Space, writes for Health Business on boosting health data-enabled research ➡️ healthbusinessuk.net/features/boost…

National perspectives and great frontline insights in the first session of our #FutureOfSevereAsthmaCare workshop from Dr Sarah Elkin, @HollyMinshall from UHNM NHS Trust 🏥, Rhiannon Clarke from Health Innovation North West Coast, Andrew Chadwick & Ola Howell from OUH & others. Chaired by Hitasha Rupani.

'Did England’s national home oxygen monitoring programme for COVID-19 work? Yes… and no.' On this issue of Emergency Medicine Journal, the editor discusses our papers led by Thomas Beaney and Jonathan M Clarke, exploring complementary angles of the evaluation. emj.bmj.com/content/40/6/3…

'Its a great, fun & learning event and gives huge opportunities for networking...out of all the conferences I go to, I go back with quite a few tips of how I can change my everyday practice.'📽️Dr Sarah Elkin

#PCRS2023 comes to Telford this September, join us ow.ly/2nE850NQkBL

a performance made all the more special by the fact that those singing elected to spend their limited energy on travelling into london, rehearsing all day and performing together as one beautiful voice. an extraordinary thing to be part of #LoveENO #ENOBreathe #LongCovid

The LOCOMOTIONstudy needs more people for a control group re. Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome ( #POTS ) in #LongCovid .
Criteria:
- Age 18yrs+
- NOT have Long Covid or #Dysautonomia
- Have a blood pressure monitor
Ruairidh Milne
Natalie Rogers 😷
Ian Tucker-Bell
Long Covid Support 🌍

'Any new intervention should be implemented fairly'

New research from IGHI's Jonathan M Clarke & colleagues has found that a national at-home pulse oximetry monitoring programme for #COVID19 was delivered fairly to people known to be at higher risk ⤵️ imperial.ac.uk/news/243912/na…