We are setting national standards to quality assure key aspects of COPD services across NHSScotland.
This project will address:
- variations in current practice
- identified quality gaps.
Standards and evaluation tool
Clinical Standards and self evaluation support are now available for NHS boards.
Get Clinical Standards and evaluation support here
Targeting 7 key service areas
We have identified the key areas our standards need to focus on. These are:
- Multidisciplinary structure at an NHS board level
- Staff training, patient education
- Case finding
- Diagnosis
- Management of stable COPD
- Management of exacerbations
- Palliative care.
Project team
This project is led by:
John Haughney, Clinical Advisor, NHS QIS.
With support from:
Clare Echlin, Acting Head of Standards Development Unit
Michelle Lacey, Programme Manager
Kelly Ryan, Project Officer
Margaret McAlees, Project Administrator.
The standards development project group includes:
- clinical and non-clinical specialists
- voluntary organisations, including the British Lung Foundation
- patients and carers.
Get in touch
Contact Kelly Ryan on 0141 225 6881 (textphone 0141 241 6316) for more information.
More downloads
Minutes of COPD project group meeting held on 20 January 2009 (Word, 86K, 20secs)
Minutes of the COPD project group meeting held on 17 March 2009 (Word, 93K, 22secs)
