Lung Improvement

Resources

If you use any of the resources on this page, please acknowledge the organisation that developed them.

Publications and guidance

• NICE COPD quality standard
• NICE clinical guidelines on the management of COPD
• Managing COPD as a long term condition: Emerging learning from the national improvement projects
• COPD - prevention and early identification - online toolkit
• Nutrition in COPD
• The Health Foundation: Helping people help themselves (May 2011) – a review of the evidence for self management
• Cochrane review on self management for COPD 2009
• Supporting people with long term conditions: commissioning personalised care planning
• Expert patients programme report: self care reduces costs and improves health: the evidence

Supporting self management

• The Health Foundation - online self management support resource centre
• Self management information from NHS East Midlands Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Network
• The Outcomes Star: a tool to support effective self care and care planning
• The Wellbeing Outcomes Star for people with Long Term Conditions
• My Breathing Book - a self management plan - publication from NHS Blackpool
• The British Lung Foundation self management pack
• NHS West Essex COPD pictorial action plan - resource from NHS West Essex
• The self care toolkit
• Making the business case for self care education
• More resources from www.selfmanagment.co.uk

College of Medicine’s self care library - An evidence based resource for the public and health professionals, providing information about common conditions and things to try. The first 12 conditions are common 'effectiveness gaps'- long-term relapsing health problems where prescription are often less than satisfactory, inlcuding stress, anxiety and depression.

Know Your Own Health* is an integrated self-management service that brings together good quality information exchange, access to appropriate services, self-management tools and techniques and is underpinned by powerful localised health community features. Because Know Your Own Health aims to embed self-management behaviours over time, it provides many more patients with a cost-effective alternative to intensive one-off self-management courses.

*Please note that the site contains video clips which may not be accessible from some internal NHS server sites

Resources from NHS Dorset:

• Self care booklet: some helpful thoughts for people with long term conditions
• Key points for healthcare professionals supporting self care
• Self care booklet: some helpful thoughts - Easy Read version

Do you have resources you would like to share with others? If so, please contact us!

Catherine Blackaby - Email: catherine.blackaby@improvement.nhs.uk

More information:

• Managing COPD
• What should we be doing?
• Learning from national projects
• The importance of self management
• How to get started