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New! Six abstracts accepted for IPCRG
NHS Improvement - Lung have had six abstracts accepted for the IPCRG conference in Edinburgh.
Our Oxygen and COPD as a LTC workstream abstracts have been accepted as oral presentations; two project sites we have been working with in the Diagnosis and COPD as a LTC workstreams have been accepted for three oral presentations, and an Asthma project site has been accepted as a poster presentation.
More information about this conference can be found on our events page.
Lung eBulletin (Issue 17) now available
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Can you help?
A national COPD diagnosis scoping exercise is continuing throughout January to understand the variation in diagnostic services that are currently being provided across the country. An optimal pathway is also being defined along with identifying the gaps between what happens now and what should be the ideal. Your help is needed in gathering this information. Find out more...
Four new publications
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6th World IPCRG Conference, hosts: PCRS-UK
Edinburgh, 25 to 28 April 2012
The PCRS-UK is hosting the 6th World IPCRG Conference ‘Breathing New Life’ from 25 to 28 April in Edinburgh, which will take the place of their usual national conference in 2012. The conference will provide essential clinical updates, as well as the latest research and practical workshops and offers a unique opportunity for UK health professionals to attend an international conference close to home. Find out more... 
Nutrition in COPD guidelines
The Respiratory Healthcare Professional's Nutritional COPD Guideline has been designed to raise awareness of nutrition with respiratory health professionals and their COPD patients. Find out more...
Online self-management support resource centre
The Health Foundation has launched a new online self management support resource centre. This provides information and practical tools that can be adopted and adapted locally to enable services and health professionals to develop their own self management support programmes.
Find out more by visiting www.health.org.uk/sms
Seek early diagnosis of COPD to slow its progress
News article from the NICE website
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Extract taken from The best of clinical pathway design: practical examples delivering benefits to patients
For further information on the Lung Improvement Programme contact: Phil Duncan, Director of Lung Improvement