The respiratory medicine department offers outpatient, day case and inpatient treatment for adults with a wide range of respiratory diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), lung cancer and tuberculosis (TB). There is a dedicated chest clinic which is open Monday-Friday.
Services offered
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Multidisciplinary team (respiratory medicine specialist, oncologist, thoracic surgeon, radiologist, cancer nurse specialist) for dealing with lung cancer patients.
How to access the service
Outpatient referrals are taken from GPs, other hospital specialists and from the accident and emergency department. The asthma and COPD specialist nurses are available to see all inpatients admitted with these diseases. The TB-specialist nurse team takes referrals from GPs, practice nurses, health visitors and school nurses.
The respiratory medicine team
There are two consultants and one associate consultant, who are supported in their outpatient and inpatient work by two specialist registrars, two senior house officers and two house physicians. There are two clinical nurse specialists in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease plus the inpatient ward team and support staff. Three dedicated receptionist/clerical staff for deal with all clinic administration.
The community team consisting of four dedicated TB nurse specialists, a community respiratory physiotherapist and a Somali outreach worker, all of whom support patients throughout their treatment, both at the hospital, in the community and at home.
