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Webinar: A novel, specialist-led, multidisciplinary approach to delivering respiratory care in the community

The talk will showcase an overview of the Portsmouth Hospital Trust, quality improvement MISSION ABC project that designed, delivered and tested a model of care to drive improvements and educate people with asthma, COPD and undiagnosed breathlessness.

The talk will showcase an overview of the Portsmouth Hospital Trust, quality improvement MISSION ABC project that designed, delivered and tested a model of care to drive improvements and educate people with asthma, COPD and undiagnosed breathlessness.

The talk will highlight the outcomes of this community based approach and how it overcame historical barriers between primary and secondary care, uniting professions and providers to deliver a high quality experience for patients.

Attendees will also learn about the spread and adoption of the MISSION project and how it has developed a toolbox containing all the essential respiratory equipment to deliver respiratory care to assist localities in planning, implementing and evaluating MISSION.

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The Asthma Right Care initiative was originated by the IPCRG with funding from AstraZeneca internationally. The adaptation of materials by PCRS for use in the UK has been funded by AstraZeneca UK Limited.
Clinical Area
Asthma
Derivation
PCRS Produced / Collaboration

Speakers

  • Hitasha Rupani

    photo of Hitasha RupaniHitasha Rupani is a consultant respiratory physician in University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and leads the Southampton Severe Asthma Centre. She chairs the British Thoracic Society Specialist Advisory Group for asthma and is a member of the Specialised Respiratory Clinical Reference Group. She is an associate editor for ERJ Open Research. She has a PhD from the University of Southampton and continues to actively engage in asthma research.

  • Ruth De Vos

    photo of Ruth De VosRuth is a specialist respiratory physiotherapist and works as the team lead in the outpatient physiotherapy service at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. Her areas of specialist interest are in the management of breathing pattern disorders and upper airways dysfunction within the severe asthma service, and airway clearance within the bronchiectasis service. Ruth also works as a research physiotherapist and has recently completed her PhD with the University of Portsmouth, developing and validating a novel measure of inhaler technique: The Portsmouth Inhaler Technique (PIT) Score.

  • Jayne Longstaff

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  • Katherine Hickman

    photo of Katherine HickmanKatherine qualified from Leeds University in 2000. She originally did a Medicine Rotation acquiring her MRCP before settling into General Practice. She is a GP Partner in Bradford. Katherine is the Respiratory Lead for West Yorkshire ICB, Primary Care Clinical Lead for the National Respiratory Audit Programme (NRAP), and Chair of PCRS. Outside of work she enjoys cooking, baking, yoga, and outdoor swimming and has recently rediscovered her love for singing and joined a choir.