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 forcasted to be the 3rd leading cause of death worldwide between 2020 and 2030. Currently in the United Kingdom it is number 4.

The Southampton COPD group is involved in delivering research programs 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 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 reduce hospital admissions by 19% in the last 12 months. For this project the team won this years 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 perfom 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.
 
New COPD Nutritional Guidelines Launched at the Winter BTS 2011

Team wins HSJ 2011 award for acute and primary care innovation!

New Research Partnerships

The Respiratory Healthcare Professionals Nutritional COPD Guideline were launched at the Winters BTS 2011. They have been designed to raise the awareness of nutrition with health professionals and their COPD patients. They provide a tool to aid first line nutritional management of this patient group and improve the nutritional status of COPD patients 

 Please access the guidelines from the links on the left hand menu of this website and view the nutrition area of this website for more information. This will allow you to download your free guidelines and the patient information leaflets. A power point presentation is also provided to give you additional information in the use of this tool.

At the Grovener House Hotel in Park Lane the team were award the HSJ 2011 award for acute and primary care innovation for their work in primary care funded by the Health Foundation. For more details please see our research and innovation area.

This month we have teamed up with Trial 4 Us to help recruit patients to an early phase study of a new anti inflammatory drug for COPD. More details can be found through the Trial 4 Us link on this page.