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Already a member? Please enter your login details in the boxes on the top-left of your screen. Forgotten your login details? Please email us at info@pcrs-uk.org and we shall email you a reminder within one working day. Join the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK today? CLICK HERE Find out more about the different membership schemes and rates CLICK HERE Want instant access to the item you were looking for? CLICK HERE Register as a member on a trial basis (downloading up to five items instantly available for 28 days) This access will be available to you for 28 days from the day you join, or until you have accessed five resources, whichever comes first. Find out more about us? CLICK HERE COPD National Strategy UpdateOn June 28th, 2006, the Dept of Health (DH) announced that it would be developing a National Service Framework (NSF) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Following the High Quality Care for All report (by Lord Darzi) in June 08, all future NSFs are to be known as national strategies, and will be the responsibility of NICE. The COPD NSF will therefore be known as the COPD National Strategy (NS). Current situation Consultation The COPD National Strategy consultation closed on 6 April 2010. PCRS-UK collated comments from members and submitted a response to the Department of Health. During March, every SHA held a meeting to gather views from the respiratory interested community to feed into the consultation process. PCRS-UK had a presence at all these meetings and many people came to the stand to see what PCRS-UK can offer to health professionals in primary care. Most important is our recently published set of three tools to help practices prepare for the National Strategy - called First Steps. Click HERE to view these tools. There is also a major PCRS-UK meeting for primary care respiratory leads, in London on July 6th, ‘Leading change in COPD care – Using the national strategy to make a difference’ – click HERE for further details. SHA respiratory clinical leads and Lung Improvement Team Most SHAs have now appointed a lead or leads, to drive improvements in the management of respiratory disease across the SHA area. We are urging members to get in touch with their SHA clinical lead in order to be involved in the implementation of the COPD NS locally, and also to lead wider improvements in respiratory care. The Lung Improvement Team has been set up by NHS Improvement to support the SHA leads in driving change and they are aligned to different SHA areas. To find the Lung Improvement lead who is aligned to your area, click HERE One of the first tasks of the Lung Improvement Team was to set up a database of good practice. This will shortly be available on their website, in order to spread examples of good practice. The SHA clinical leads will be gathering data in order to benchmark their area against a national average and other SHA areas, supporting the development of pilots to test improved ways of delivering care (see below), and encouraging the creation of a steering group/ network/ community of practice to oversee the changes across the SHA area. Pilot programmes - During the course of developing the COPD National Strategy it became clear that there were a range of interventions for which there was widespread support from clinicians but minimal formal evidence. The decision was therefore taken to explore these areas under a programme of pilots. Proposals were invited before the end of April 2010, and the Lung Improvement Team will be reviewing the proposals and determining which pilots are to be progressed. Next steps Final publication Because there has been a change of government, discussions are now taking place between DH and the new ministerial team for health to discuss the overall plans for healthcare, and determine which policies in development under Labour will be pursued and with what priority. Therefore the timing of final publication is uncertain at present. But DH continues to work on a range of other documents to accompany the strategy – medicines management, workforce, spirometry, for example. Implementation meetings It is expected that there will be meetings in September/ October within SHA areas to engage local staff in implementing the National Strategy. PCRS-UK will keep you informed about the dates of these meetings. Want to know more? Policy analysis on other topics is a key part of what PCRS-UK provides to its members. Information is available for members only on areas such as NICE, the Lung Improvement Programme and the Quality and Outcomes Framework. To have access to this information and analysis – join PCRS-UK! End |
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