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 CPD Module for GPs worth 2.5 CPD points courtesy of GP Online

Latest lecture series announced

Latest primary care results shown - screening programmes and database reviews

The Southampton COPD Group will be publishing self management plans and patient education booklets for download - Watch this space in a few weeks to get yours!

We have been working with GP online to bring you a brand new COPD module. The module is worth 2.5 CPD points and can be accessed here.

We have a list of lectures on all topics COPD. These are all held in the South Academic Block of University Hospitals Southampton. These are held before our main weekly meeting at 14:00hrs in LF8 every Thursday and last 30 minutes. All are welcome. The timetable can be accessed via the education and meeting section on the tabs at the top of the web page. Please feel free to present or request topics and we will try our best to cover.

Southampton COPD Team have been in 2 surgeries in Southampton City PCT. One involved a screening programme of current and ex smokers, the other was a complete database review of COPD patients. The results are surprising! Please access them here.

The group has been working hard to help primary and  secondary care deliver the NICE quality standards. We will be publishing several documents over the next few weeks. These include annual review templates, self management plans and patient education leaflets.