NHS England (NHSE) are developing a new five-year vision to refresh the existing Long Term Plan commitments for PR and help convey NHSE’s goals for improving PR. We've sought to influence this vision with our recent position paper with evidence and recommendations for where NHSE’s vision could go further than commitments outlined in the Long-Term Plan to improve access to high-quality PR services for people with a range of different respiratory conditions.
If you live in England and have been diagnosed with asthma, COPD, ILD or bronchiectasis, we'd love to hear from you in our latest surveys.
Dr Alison Cook reflects on her time as the Chair of the Taskforce for Lung Health.
At Taskforce for Lung Health we’re striving to make sure people with a lung condition are able to live full and active lives and do the things that are important to them and their families. Here’s an update from our PR Working Group Co-Chairs on what happened in 2021.
Dr Anna Murphy and Darush Attar-Zadeh, Co-Chairs of our medicines optimisation working group, look back over the previous year and the developments achieved around improving the management and treatment of lung disease.
A reflection on 2021 and the developments around improving the early and accurate diagnosis of lung disease, from the Co-chairs of the Taskforce for Lung Health Diagnosis working group.
Taskforce want to see more people with lung disease have the opportunity to take part in, and complete pulmonary rehabilitation.
We are campaigning for increased awareness of, and access to, pulmonary rehabilitation.
Yasmeen, 24, is a nurse living and working in East London. She shares her story of managing her severe asthma.