NHS England have recently introduced new forms for use when ordering home oxygen directly from the supplier via home oxygen order forms (HOOFs). It is recommended that patients are referred to the home oxygen assessment and review service (HOS-AR) service for initiation of home oxygen (there is no change to this process).
The RightBreathe website and app has been developed by Lambeth GP, Dr Azhar Saleem, in conjunction with (amongst others) UK Medicines Information. Both the website and app have now been launched, and with details on every licensed inhaler in the UK for asthma and COPD, including links to videos and prescribing information, they provide a free-to-use, comprehensive, ‘one-stop’ Continue Reading »
In a Cochrane review of 11 studies, which included 9839 participants with stable chronic COPD, LAMA+LABA treatment had fewer exacerbations, a larger improvement of FEV1, a lower risk of pneumonia, and more frequent improvement in quality of life as measured by an increase over 4 units or more of the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) compared with LABA+ICS Continue Reading »
The inhaler technique videos below have been jointly produced by PrescQIPP and Health and Care Videos to help patients, carers and others master any one of 17 different inhalers. A range of patient information leaflet templates to support the videos will be available soon. Click here to go to the videos.
Many people can get more out of their inhalers by using them slightly differently. Small differences in the way inhalers are used can have quite a big effect on how well they work. Small changes can increase the amount of medicine that gets into the deeper parts of the lungs. The more medicine that gets into the small Continue Reading »