North and West Hampshire Community Respiratory Service is a Nurse and Allied Healthcare Professional led service. Our team look after people living at home with long term respiratory conditions in the areas of Basingstoke, Andover, Winchester, Eastleigh, Lymington, New Forest, Romsey and Totton.
We will work alongside you and your loved ones, your GP services, local hospital teams as well as other community teams to support you in managing your respiratory condition. The range of services our team can offer include:
Contact information
Aim:
The aim of this service is to stabilise your respiratory care so you feel confident in managing your own needs through education.
Who for:
Patients within West Hampshire who:
- Have a confirmed diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Has adequate social support
- GP has confirmed that referral to the admission avoidance pathway is appropriate.
What we will do:
- Contact you within 24 hours of referral
- Support you in your own homes or via telephone contact (as indicated)
- Identify further deterioration in your condition through respiratory assessment
- Provide respiratory education
- Promote self-management
- Check your Inhaler technique and compliance
- Communicate to your GP at the beginning and end of the pathway.
- Communicate and discuss any significant changes to your condition at any point during the pathway.
Referral:
Referral is made by GPs please contact your GP surgery.
Aim:
The aim of this service is to stabilise and support you when you return home from a hospital visit.
Who for:
Patients in West Hampshire who:
- Have a confirmed diagnosis of Chronic obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).
- Patients whose main reason for hospital admission was acute exacerbation of COPD.
What we will do:
- Contact you within 24 hours of referral
- Support you in your own home or via telephone contact as clinically indicated
- Identify deterioration in your condition through respiratory assessment
- Provide respiratory education
- Promote self-management
- Check Inhaler technique and compliance
- Review your care for a period of 28 days following discharge from hospital
- Communicate to your GP at the beginning and end of the pathway.
Referral:
Referral is made to the service using the clinical triage line by clinicians from the hospital
Aim:
The aim of this service is to:
- Introduce you to exercise in a safe and fun environment
- Provide education on your lung condition and teach effective self-management of it.
- Ensure confidence in self-management
- Enable engagement in onward lifestyle change
- Promote peer support
Who for:
Patients within West Hampshire who:
- Have a confirmed respiratory diagnosis
- Functionally limited by their breathlessness
- Will commit to the duration of the course
- Have your own transport to your agreed venue. Transport can only be provided in exceptional circumstances.
What we will do:
- See you for a pre-course assessment within 10 weeks of referral (unless you choose a later appointment)
- Offer courses at various locations across West Hampshire and patients will be allocated to their preferred venue at pre-course assessment
- Provide an individualised pre and post-course assessment.
- Provide a two hour session, twice a week for 6 weeks.
- Provide a structured and individualised exercise programme
- Provide a structured education programme
- Communicate to the referrer and GP once you have commenced and completed a programme.
Referral:
You should be referred to this pathway of the service using our referral form.
Aim:
- Ensure the safe provision of ambulatory and long-term oxygen therapy
- Ensure the effective use of ambulatory and long-term oxygen therapy.
Who for:
Patients within the West Hampshire area who require long-term or ambulatory oxygen therapy
What we will do:
- Review your care when you are at least six weeks free of an exacerbation
- Complete a home risk assessment
- Review your care after six weeks following a change in your oxygen prescription
- Review your care as a minimum annually once you are established and stable on your oxygen therapy
- Offer home visits if you are housebound
- Communicate to the GP following each assessment.