Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
There are over 800,000 people in England currently diagnosed with COPD and an estimated further 2 million undiagnosed cases.
Over 20,000 patients with COPD die each year in England. The overall economic cost to the NHS is just short of one billion pounds a year and growing.
The launch of the National Service Strategy for COPD provides a framework of recommendations for service improvement that the HIEC can work towards so optimising the whole patient pathway from prevention, diagnosis, to health interventions and finally end of life care.
HIEC work in COPD
- Project Title: Benchmarking Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services across NECLES
- Project Title: Developing a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) in COPD
- Project Title: A Year in the Life: Adding value to COPD services in Primary Care
- Project Title: To prevent readmission rates through the empowerment of patients using self management skills and rescue packs
- Project Title: Door to mask time: an assessment of non-invasive ventilation provision for patients with an acute exacerbation of COPD
- Project Title: Validating primary care COPD registrars to NICE 2010 guidelines
- Project Title: Shine: creating patient scorecards to drive improvement in outcomes of COPD care
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