COPD & Home Oxygen Service (COPD): CNWL

Camden
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The team also offers a spirometry for diagnosis of COPD and, like primary care, is undertaking this with limited access to estates within the restrictions of IPC guidelines.

The referral criteria are:

  • Smokers or ex-smokers (including cannabis, crack or heroin) over the age of 35 with a minimum 10-pack-year history of smoking 
  • Present with symptoms of COPD:
    • Exertional breathlessness
    • Chronic cough
    • Regular sputum production
    • Frequent winter bronchitis
    • Wheeze
  • and do not have clinical features of asthma:
    • Significantly variable breathlessness
    • Night-time wakening with breathlessness and/or wheeze
    • Significant diurnal or day-to-day variability of symptoms.

Camden COPD service cares for patients with a diagnosis of COPD confirmed with obstruction on spirometry, and supports other healthcare professionals in the management of COPD.

The service offers the following:

  • Home visits for COPD self-management
  • Respiratory clinics for patients with deteriorating symptoms not manageable in primary care and spirometry for diagnosis
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation
  • Smoking cessation and behaviour change programme for people with confirmed COPD
  • Annual review of all people who have home oxygen therapy

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusions

  • aged 18+ and registered with Camden GP
  • confirmed diagnosis of COPD.

Exclusions

  • not suitable for those who require full pulmonary lung function testing for diagnosis or assessment for complex interventions (e.g type 2 respiratory failure or hypercapnia, assessment for lung volume reduction interventions).

How to Refer

EMIS form

Referral methods: Email

Complete the Camden Integrated Adult Community Services - CNWL referral form (attaching any relevant discharge, outpatient reports or recent spirometry) and email to the Camden Central Access Team: camdenreferrals.cnwl@nhs.net

Where to find the form

  • Camden Global Documents > Adult & Elderly Services

Please note: Any incomplete referral forms will not be accepted and will be returned to the referrer.


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Review date: Sunday, 14 April 2024