Respiratory
Respiratory Medicine based at NHS Stockport Foundation Trust Stepping Hill Hospital, offers both in-patient and outpatient services for the people of Stockport and surrounding areas.
The respiratory medicine department , provides a range of respiratory medicine services to local Primary Care Trust, NHS Stockport, population and beyond, including the High Peak, Tameside and Glossop as well as some from South Manchester. There are 26 dedicated respiratory medicine beds on the respiratory ward.
Outpatient services are focused at chest clinic, a stand-alone building on the Stepping Hill site, with lung function facilities co-located.
All COPD patients are screened to determine suitablility for home care including education and medications, inhaler technique
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Useful documents
- The use of spirometry in screening for COPD (Practice Nursing 2014, Vo l25, No 9)
