Welcome to COPD Education

Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease Healthcare Proffessionals

This site has been developed by the Southampton COPD Group, based at University Hospital Southampton, to help healthcare professionals to diagnose and manage patients with Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (COPD). COPD is forecasted to be the 3rd leading cause of death worldwide between 2020 and 2030 and currently ranks 4th in the United Kingdom.

The Southampton COPD group is involved in delivering research programmes from basic science research in airways disease, Phase I to IV studies, and service innovation.

The group provides education to specialist nurses up to COPD diploma level, and doctors in primary and secondary care. We focus on helping primary and secondary care deliver the latest COPD NICE guidelines and the NICE quality standards in a variety of settings. For more information on these courses/lectures please visit our Education and Meeting section here.

We have a team ready to work with commissioning groups and providers to set up the necessary infrastructure to deliver the QIPP agenda and reduce dependency on secondary care. Locally we have reduced hospital admissions by 19% in the last 12 months. For this project the team won the 2011 prestigious HSJ awards in the acute and primary care innovation category.

The group also delivers a clinical COPD service in a mixed commissioning and research economy from primary to tertiary care under the name Southampton COPD Community Partnerships. We perform bespoke community screening programmes and primary care database reviews within Southampton City and West Hampshire.

The main aim of the group and this site is to help you deliver a confident diagnosis of COPD, make the discrimination between COPD and asthma, and manage stable and acute disease.

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E-learning Courses

HealthQuest Solutions will be working in partnership with the University of Southampton to deliver in the Autumn of 2013 a COPD e-Learning Module delivered at levels 6 and 7. This module will meet the needs of students and practitioners working in a variety of health care settings and ensure that the best quality care is delivered to meet the needs of patients with COPD. More information can be found here.

myCOPD Solution

HealthQuest Solutions are now pleased to introduce their myCOPD patient platform for patient electronic self-management.The Web based solution couples with a bespoke patient holdall with pockets to hold rescue medication, inhalers, tablet medication and spacer device. The holdall also has sleeves to house our self management plan, oxygen alert card and patient diary. This product formally launches on the 7th May 2013. For more information please click here.

iBreathe Health Project Launch

For the last 5 years The Southampton COPD group has developed experience in running the most sophisticated commercial research studies. The expertise in the group gives us invaluable insight allowing us to work in synergy with large pharmaceutical companies helping them both design and deliver their portfolio. We have access through our unique integration of GCP trained clinical and research teams to a database of more than 6000 patients with respiratory disease and can deliver targeted recruitment programmes.

Many of these patients have volunteered to be pre-screened and phenotyped though our unique programme with the CLRN known as the iBreathe database project. This not only allows seamless rapid recruitment but allows the accurate assessment of feasibility of new studies. Access to this information also allows us to facilitate trial design by making sure the patient inclusion and exclusion criteria do not block recruitment. For more information on this project click here.

New Self Management plans

COPD education and Healthquest Solutions have developed a new self management plan for 2013. Updated to include the very latest advice and education for patients these are printed to the very highest specification. Prices depend on the size of the order. Larger orders can be developed bespoke to local needs. To order please click here.