COPD Specialist Nursing Team

The COPD Specialist Nursing Team is based at the Northern General Hospital and provides a service for all Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.  

Mission Statement

 “dedicated to improving the management of COPD and ensuring a patient centred holistic approach to care leads to an improved quality of life and a better experience of the journey through the healthcare system.”

 Objectives

• Provide a structured evidence based approach to the management.

• Provide a seamless patient led service.

• Improve the patients journey through secondary care onto supported discharge and to facilitate an effective return to community based care.

• Facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to COPD management through holistic patient centred care planning.

• Provide expert knowledgeable clinically based information to all.

• Emphasis of patient self-management towards the goal of self-provision and control supporting current evidence based best practice.

Role Responsibilities

 To review all patients admitted with COPD for advice and education including assessment for early supported discharge. 

 Key Responsibilities

• Advice and education for patients and healthcare professionals.

• Assessment of COPD patients on admission to hospital and at home following discharge.

• Arrange home services when required.

• Medicines review.

• COPD Nurse led clinics.

• Arrange follow up care when appropriate.

The Team

Hours available      8.30 – 4.30 7 days/week

Contact Numbers

• Tel:    0114 2266388

• Fax:   0114 2714511

The Oxygen Nursing Service

This service runs parallel to the COPD nursing service.

 Key Responsibilities

• Assessment for long term oxygen therapy
• Review of all patients on long term oxygen as per national guidelines
• Advice and education for all patients and healthcare professionals

Oxygen Specialist Nurses

• Christine Wrench

• Ruth Darwin

Hours available      8.30 – 4.30 5 days/week

Contact Numbers

• Tel:    0114 2269175 / 2269207

• Fax:   0114 2714511