- Provided by:
- Medway Community Healthcare
- Description
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The community respiratory team are advanced nurses, physiotherapists and dietitians whose skills provide comprehensive respiratory assessments to patients at home in Medway and Swale with the lung conditions:
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD),
- interstitial lung diseases
- Bronchiectasis
We can use a range of treatments to help you to better manage your lung condition and to monitor the progression of lung disease.
We are able to offer you medication reviews, oxygen assessments, dietetic assessments and pulmonary rehabilitation.
Using expert knowledge, we aim to ensure your treatment is optimised and in accordance with national guidelines.
More about our respiratory services
Referrals
If you think we could help you please contact your GP or healthcare professional and ask them to carry out Spirometry (a quick and painless test which measures how well you can breathe) to be certain you will benefit from a referral to our team.
We are able to offer routine and urgent home visits, the frequency of which are determined by your clinical need.
Phone support and advice is available Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm, on 01634 382 860.
Regular oxygen clinics are run at Medway Maritime Hospital, Parkwood Healthy Living Centre and Sheppey Community Hospital
All referrals must be completed by a GP or healthcare professional using the online referral form.
- Website
- Phone
- 01634 337 593
- Address
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Mch House
Bailey Drive
Gillingham
Kent
ME8 0PZ - Price
- Free of charge