West Hampshire Integrated Respiratory Service is a Nurse and Allied Healthcare Professional led service covering Andover, Winchester, Eastleigh, Lymington, New Forest, Romsey and Totton.
As well as GP Practices, the West Hampshire Integrated Respiratory Service works with all secondary care organisations within this area.
The team offers a range of services to support your care. Take a look at some of the pathways below.
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 whos 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 2 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 the 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 6 weeks free of an exacerbation
- Complete a home risk assessment
- Review your care after 6 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.
This is a designated support service for GP surgeries.
Aim:
- Provide respiratory support to primary care staff
- Upskill primary care staff in the management of respiratory patients
Who for:
Primary care staff in the West Hampshire area to assist and support in the management of Asthma and/or COPD.
What we will do:
Advice – The service offers advice and support through a dedicated healthcare professional telephone line and email.This is offered Monday – Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm.
Complex case management support – The service offers support with complex patients on an annual basis through a joint clinic at the practice surgery. The clinic can be used to jointly review patients, do virtual/paper review of patients with practice based staff or in a supervisory capacity to upskill practice based staff.
Education – The service offers education to each practice on an annual basis. This will include a review of the practice data, update on respiratory developments and any practice specific requests. If groups of practices join together we are able to offer education on a more frequent basis.
Referral:
To contact the P.A.C.E service please call 0300 003 0760 or email: pace@southernhealth.nhs.uk.
Aim:
Provide psychological support to all patients that access the service.
Who for:
The service is for respiratory patients that are accessing the other pathways within the service.
What we will do:
- The team are skilled to provide self management, motivational interviewing and guided self help
- Dedicated psychology input into your care
- Cognitive behavioural therapy for those patients that need it
- Self help groups for patients and carers
- Seamless transition to existing psychology service.
Referral:
Patients will access this service through internal referral only.
How to find us
Contact information
Telephone: 0300 003 0140