The Community Respiratory Service is a multidisciplinary team who provide specialist care and support for people in Kirklees with chronic respiratory disease and their carers. Our patients are 18 years old and over.
We work in clinics alongside consultants to assess, treat, advise and support our patients. As a specialist service, we educate and advise general practices and other healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients with chronic respiratory disease.
In the Greater Huddersfield area, we provide a supported discharge service to support patients returning home from hospital following an acute illness. We also provide pulmonary rehabilitation. Pulmonary rehabilitation is an eight-week course that includes exercises and specialist education appropriate for people with chronic respiratory disease.
In North Kirklees the service is provided for patient with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) only.
We have links with the palliative care team, based at The Kirkwood, who provide end of life care and support for people and their families whose respiratory disease is in the advanced stages.
The service provides:
The Respiratory teams are unable to:
Please note that patients living in Calderdale with bronchiectasis are managed by the Calderdale Pulmonary Rehabilitation service. Patients living in Huddersfield with bronchiectasis are managed by the outpatient team at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
If you can’t attend an appointment – including a telephone appointment – or a visit to your home is no longer convenient, please let us know by ringing ‘Single Point of Contact’ on 0300 3045555. We can give the appointment to another patient.
Patients are regularly asked about their experience. Locala respects the privacy of our patients and their carers and is committed to listening to a diverse population. Therefore our surveys are anonymous and include equality and diversity questions for monitoring purposes only.
Feedback from patients with Pulmonary rehabilitation
“I was given incentive to stick to the program.”
“I have benefited from this class in health and mobility.”
“The class gives me incentive to do my exercises. I do them every day at home and have more use in my body.”
“The exercises were right for me and I will carry on doing them at home.”
“I feel empowered to deal with my condition, to take control and do the best I can to continue with my physical and emotional health, to deal with and keep my condition at bay.”
"I have more confidence to tackle everyday jobs I need to do."
“They made us realise it is important to keep exercising to help keep the condition in check.”
“I will continue to exercise because I feel a lot better mentally and physically.”
Other feedback
All patients who responded to the latest annual survey said that they would recommend the Respiratory Service. All patients felt they had been given enough time to discuss their condition and treatment.
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