IMPRESS Improving and Integrating Respiratory ... - Brit Thoracic

IMPRESSImproving and Integrating Respiratory Services in the NHS(Thinking strategically: Implementing locally).A joint British Thoracic Society (BTS) and General Practice Airways Group(GPIAG) initiative providing the clinical leadership required to drive high qualitypatient centred care across the traditional boundaries of secondary and primarycare to integrate and improve the services for people with respiratory disease.Our AimsBTS and GPIAG both have a passion to improve services for patients withrespiratory disease. The aims of IMPRESS are to provide leadership, advice andsupport to our members to help them engage with the changing NHS and to findways to direct and provide high quality integrated care for people with respiratorydisease in local settings.Who are we?The organisations have formed a Joint Committee to develop a range of activitieswhich will deliver this agenda. This model of working together across traditionalhealth care boundaries is new and exciting and we will be inclusive in ourapproach, involving patient, lay, management and other constituencies in ourwork.Members of the Joint Committee are:-Dr Tony Davison (Joint Chair)Consultant Physician in Respiratory and Acute Medicine at Southend UniversityHospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Barts and the Royal LondonHospitals. Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the BritishThoracic Society. Co-Chair of the National Guidelines Group for EmergencyOxygen. Previously a member of the BTS Guidelines group of Hospital at Homefor COPD (forthcoming, 2007); Non-invasive ventilation;. Interstitial LungDisease. Clinical Director of Medicine for past 13 years at Southend Hospital.MISSION&MEMBERSDate of Publication: October 2008SE

Dr Steve Holmes (Joint Chair)Steve is a general practitioner in Somerset as well as working in a PCTenvironment. He is current chair of the General Practice Airways Group. Steve isa trustee and council member of the Royal College of General Practitioners anda member of the British Thoracic Society Education Committee. He has a wideportfolio of involvements with the British Lung Foundation, Asthma UK and theBritish Asthma Guidelines. He also has interests in medical education andperformance assessment, practitioners with a specialist interest and clinicalgovernance.Steve CatlingMr Catling is a lay Trustee of the British Thoracic Society and therefore brings hisexpertise and this perspective to the IMPRESS Committee. Before retirement,he had worked in a number of senior positions within the department of Health.Dr Stephen G a du zoGP in Stockport since 1989. Respiratory interest grew while junior doctor inWythenshawe. Involved in respiratory care locally since appointed as GPprincipal. Part of working party which developed and set up Tier 2 / ICATSservice in COPD for Stockport before being appointed as GPwSI for the service.Now running for about 18 months providing triage of respiratory referrals,multidisciplinary team approach, community pulmonary rehabilitation. Member ofGPIAG, part of 2007 conference organising committee, also advisory group toNICE recently as they drew up guidelines for commissioning pulmonary rehab. &supported early discharge schemes.Dr Kevin Gruffyd-JonesKevin is a GP in Box , Wiltshire and Honorary Research Lecturer at theUniversity of Aberdeen and University of Bath. He is a member of the BTS andex-education lead and Committee member of the GPIAG . He has been amember of the BTS COPD Consortium and NICE Committees on Commissioningpulmonary rehabilitation and early discharge services. He currently leads theGPIAG GPwSI programme.Sharon HaggertySharon Haggerty is currently Head of Adult Services for County Durham andDarlington PCTs, having developed her respiratory interest and knowledge whilstworking as a Community Respiratory Nurse Specialist for more than nine yearsin Sunderland. Sharon continues to work within the respiratory field both asclinical advisor to commissioners in the development of respiratory diseasemanagement service specifications, and on the development and implementationof new service models within provider services.Dr Louise RestrickMISSION&MEMBERSDate of Publication: October 2008SE

Louise Restrick is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Whittington Hospitalin North London. She is the clinical lead for the Whittington Hospital multidisciplinaryCOPD Team which was the winning team of the 2006 HospitalDoctor national COPD Team Award. She has worked closely with primary careover 10 years to develop new models of care for respiratory patients. She chairsthe local PCT Respiratory Prescribing Group, was the clinical lead for thetransition to the new oxygen service in North London and is a member of theBTS Oxygen Working Party and local PCT COPD steering groups.Dr Dermot RyanDr Dermot Ryan is a full-time GP in Loughborough with a sessional clinicalresearch fellowship in Primary Care Respiratory Medicine at the University ofAberdeen where he is currently working on GPwSIs in Respiratory disease andallergy. He has been interested in Asthma and other respiratory disorders for thelast 19 years. He is a member of the GPIAG, BTS and ERS. He was twicechairman of the GPIAG and is still active on the committee. He was on thesteering group of the 2003 BTS/SIGN British Asthma Guideline and chairman ofthe primary care sub-committee of the Royal College of Physicians allergyworking party.Stephanie ReillySteph Reilly is employed by Derby City PCT as the Lead COPD Nurse Specialistfor the Southern Derbyshire COPD Primary Care service where she manages ateam of 6 nurses and a respiratory health care scientist. She is the Chair of thelocal COPD steering group and also sits on the local LTC network board. Overthe last 10 years she has had a varied career path working within SecondaryCare, Primary Care and for the Pharmaceutical Industry all within the respiratorynursing field specialising, in the main, in COPD. She is a nurse representativeon the GPIAG General Committee and Vice Chair of the GPIAG EducationCommittee. She is also Vice Chair of the GPIAG PN Working Party which islooking specifically at the needs of nurses within Primary care.Jane ScullionJane Scullion is a Respiratory Nurse Consultant at Glenfield Hospital NHS Trustin Leicester. For several years she chaired the Respiratory Nurses Forum at theRoyal College of Nursing. Jane has been a members of BTS Council and hasserved on a number of BTS Standing Committees, including the Research andStandards of Care Committees.Ex-officioAnne SmithAnne Smith is Chief Executive of the GPIAG. Previous relevant experience in acareer spanning voluntary sector and industry includes: Chief Executive ofNational Asthma Campaign (now Asthma UK); Director of Respiratory Marketing,MISSION&MEMBERSDate of Publication: October 2008SE

GlaxoWellcome UK Ltd (now GSK); trustee of the Long Term Medical ConditionsAlliance and member (lay representative) of NICE Appraisal Committee.Iain SmallIain Small is a General Practitioner in Peterhead, North East Scotland. He isClinical Lead of the Grampian Managed Clinical Network for COPD and Chair ofGIAG Executve. He is joint chair of the Grampian Children's Asthma Task Group,and sat on Quality Improvement Scotland Children's Asthma Standards, and isinvolved in the development of Standards for COPD.Sheila EdwardsSheila Edwards is the Chief Executive of the British Thoracic Society. Relevantwork experience in a career in the public sector over 25 years includes:- GeneralManager of the Lister Postgraduate Institute in Edinburgh; Head of FacultySupport, University of Central Lancashire Faculty of Health; Royal College ofSurgeons of London (JCHST). Has a particular interest in organisationaldevelopment, and associated postgraduate qualification.Professor John MacfarlaneJohn Macfarlane is a full time Consultant Physician in Respiratory and AcuteMedicine at Nottingham University Hospitals, and Special Professor ofRespiratory Medicine at Nottingham University. He is chairman of the BritishThoracic Society, trustee and council member of the Royal College Physiciansand UK representative on the European Federation of Respiratory Societies.Dr Steve ConnellanSteve Connellan is a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicineat New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton and Honorary Senior LecturerWolverhampton University. He is a previous member of the BTS Standards ofCare Committee, Chairman of BTS COPD Consortium and a BTS representativeon issues relating to HRGs/PbR/Coding/Casemix. He has been respiratory EWGlead for last 16 years. Member of BTS Oxygen group. Member of RCPcommittee on issues relating to PbR/HRGs. Ex-Member of NICE COPDguidelines reference group. Particular interests also include Allergy andOccupational Lung Disease.Project ManagerSian WilliamsSiân Williams was a national NHS management trainee and manager for 10years. As a freelance health consultant she has acted as CEO of the GPIAG tocover maternity leave; worked across the health and social care system in Lutonto improve respiratory care as part of the Modernisation Agency’s PursuingMISSION&MEMBERSDate of Publication: October 2008SE

Perfection pilot and is the Executive Officer of the International Primary CareRespiratory Group. With GPIAG colleagues she has developed the model for aPractitioner with special respiratory interest.Please read the accompanying NARRATIVE to find out more details about ourplans.MISSION&MEMBERSDate of Publication: October 2008SE