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Use of COPD Templates to Promote Stuctured Care
  • Have you recently used a COPD template and was it useful for identifying need?
  • Have you recently reviewed the Read codes that are being used in your practice?
  • Does your COPD template capture all the necessary information needed to provide a structured COPD programme of care?
Gathering the right information through the use of a template enables resources to be targeted to specific areas of need. For example, when inviting patients in for a COPD review, those with more severe COPD and frequent exacerbations may benefit from seeing a member of the clinical team with more COPD experience. A patient with mild COPD, no recent exacerbations and on minimal inhaled medication, could see a member of the team with less COPD experience. By targeting the more severe COPD patients to the most experienced team members both patient and clinician feel confident that every aspect of their care is being addressed. It is important that any healthcare professional involved in COPD management has undertaken an appropriate educational course to ensure they are competent to manage the complexities of this disease.

Click here for more information on providers of respiratory education.

Further information on templates can be found here

Click here to see a list of useful Read Codes to include in a COPD Template

Templates can be used to gather information to highlight patients who need to be reviewed sooner. For example, those with FEV1 < 50% and two exacerbations - are they on the recommended inhaled medication of a combination of Long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) and inhaled corticosteroid therapy?

Information gathered on the COPD template can be broken down into essential information (linked to QOF) and desirable information.

Some of the information required can be seen as essential for a practice to achieve its QOF targets. Additional parameters on a template allow for more sophisticated care / recall systems and may be used for improving quality of care in LES / DES initiatives.
This series of resources has been produced as a service to primary care by the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK) and has been supported by an educational grant from Allen & Hanburys, AstraZeneca UK Ltd and Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd/Pfizer Ltd. The views expressed in the materials are not necessarily those of either the sponsors or the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK). © PCRS-UK
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