IMPRESS
Improving 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 quality patient centred care across the traditional boundaries of secondary and primary care to integrate and improve the services for people with respiratory disease.
Our Aims
BTS and GPIAG both have a passion to improve services for patients with respiratory disease. The aims of IMPRESS are to provide leadership, advice and support to our members to help them engage with the changing NHS and to find ways to direct and provide high quality integrated care for people with respiratory disease in local settings.
Who are we?
The organisations have formed a Joint Committee to develop a range of activities which will deliver this agenda. This model of working together across traditional health care boundaries is new and exciting and we will be inclusive in our approach, involving patient, lay, management and other constituencies in our work.
Members of the Joint Committee are:-
Dr Tony Davison (Joint Chair)
Consultant Physician in Respiratory and Acute Medicine at Southend University Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Barts and the Royal London Hospitals. Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the British Thoracic Society. Co-Chair of the National Guidelines Group for Emergency Oxygen. Previously a member of the BTS Guidelines group of Hospital at Home for COPD (forthcoming, 2007); Non-invasive ventilation;. Interstitial Lung Disease. Clinical Director of Medicine for past 13 years at Southend Hospital.
Dr Steve Holmes (Joint Chair)
Steve is a general practitioner in Somerset as well as working in a PCT environment. He is current chair of the General Practice Airways Group. Steve is a trustee and council member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and a member of the British Thoracic Society Education Committee. He has a wide portfolio of involvements with the British Lung Foundation, Asthma UK and the British Asthma Guidelines. He also has interests in medical education and performance assessment, practitioners with a specialist interest and clinical governance.
Steve Catling
Mr Catling is a lay Trustee of the British Thoracic Society and therefore brings his expertise 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 Gaduzo
GP in Stockport since 1989. Respiratory interest grew while junior doctor in Wythenshawe. Involved in respiratory care locally since appointed as GP principal. Part of working party which developed and set up Tier 2 / ICATS service 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 of GPIAG, part of 2007 conference organising committee, also advisory group to NICE recently as they drew up guidelines for commissioning pulmonary rehab. & supported early discharge schemes.
Dr Kevin Gruffyd-Jones
Kevin is a GP in Box , Wiltshire and Honorary Research Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and University of Bath. He is a member of the BTS and ex-education lead and Committee member of the GPIAG . He has been a member of the BTS COPD Consortium and NICE Committees on Commissioning pulmonary rehabilitation and early discharge services. He currently leads the GPIAG GPwSI programme.
Sharon Haggerty
Sharon Haggerty is currently Head of Adult Services for County Durham and Darlington PCTs, having developed her respiratory interest and knowledge whilst working as a Community Respiratory Nurse Specialist for more than nine years in Sunderland. Sharon continues to work within the respiratory field both as clinical advisor to commissioners in the development of respiratory disease management service specifications, and on the development and implementation of new service models within provider services.
Dr Louise Restrick
Louise Restrick is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at the Whittington Hospital in North London. She is the clinical lead for the Whittington Hospital multi-disciplinary COPD Team which was the winning team of the 2006 Hospital Doctor national COPD Team Award. She has worked closely with primary care over 10 years to develop new models of care for respiratory patients. She chairs the local PCT Respiratory Prescribing Group, was the clinical lead for the transition to the new oxygen service in North London and is a member of the BTS Oxygen Working Party and local PCT COPD steering groups.
Dr Dermot Ryan
Dr Dermot Ryan is a full-time GP in Loughborough with a sessional clinical research fellowship in Primary Care Respiratory Medicine at the University of Aberdeen where he is currently working on GPwSIs in Respiratory disease and allergy. He has been interested in Asthma and other respiratory disorders for the last 19 years. He is a member of the GPIAG, BTS and ERS. He was twice chairman of the GPIAG and is still active on the committee. He was on the steering group of the 2003 BTS/SIGN British Asthma Guideline and chairman of the primary care sub-committee of the Royal College of Physicians allergy working party.
Stephanie Reilly
Steph Reilly is employed by Derby City PCT as the Lead COPD Nurse Specialist for the Southern Derbyshire COPD Primary Care service where she manages a team of 6 nurses and a respiratory health care scientist. She is the Chair of the local COPD steering group and also sits on the local LTC network board. Over the last 10 years she has had a varied career path working within Secondary Care, Primary Care and for the Pharmaceutical Industry all within the respiratory nursing field specialising, in the main, in COPD. She is a nurse representative on the GPIAG General Committee and Vice Chair of the GPIAG Education Committee. She is also Vice Chair of the GPIAG PN Working Party which is looking specifically at the needs of nurses within Primary care.
Jane Scullion
Jane Scullion is a Respiratory Nurse Consultant at Glenfield Hospital NHS Trust in Leicester. For several years she chaired the Respiratory Nurses Forum at the Royal College of Nursing. Jane has been a members of BTS Council and has served on a number of BTS Standing Committees, including the Research and Standards of Care Committees.
Ex-officio
Anne Smith
Anne Smith is Chief Executive of the GPIAG. Previous relevant experience in a career spanning voluntary sector and industry includes: Chief Executive of National Asthma Campaign (now Asthma UK); Director of Respiratory Marketing, GlaxoWellcome UK Ltd (now GSK); trustee of the Long Term Medical Conditions Alliance and member (lay representative) of NICE Appraisal Committee.
Iain Small
Iain Small is a General Practitioner in Peterhead, North East Scotland. He is Clinical Lead of the Grampian Managed Clinical Network for COPD and Chair of GIAG Executve. He is joint chair of the Grampian Children's Asthma Task Group, and sat on Quality Improvement Scotland Children's Asthma Standards, and is involved in the development of Standards for COPD.
Sheila Edwards
Sheila Edwards is the Chief Executive of the British Thoracic Society. Relevant work experience in a career in the public sector over 25 years includes:- General Manager of the Lister Postgraduate Institute in Edinburgh; Head of Faculty Support, University of Central Lancashire Faculty of Health; Royal College of Surgeons of London (JCHST). Has a particular interest in organisational development, and associated postgraduate qualification.
Professor John Macfarlane
John Macfarlane is a full time Consultant Physician in Respiratory and Acute Medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals, and Special Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Nottingham University. He is chairman of the British Thoracic Society, trustee and council member of the Royal College Physicians and UK representative on the European Federation of Respiratory Societies.
Dr Steve Connellan
Steve Connellan is a Consultant Physician in Respiratory and General Medicine at New Cross Hospital Wolverhampton and Honorary Senior Lecturer Wolverhampton University. He is a previous member of the BTS Standards of Care Committee, Chairman of BTS COPD Consortium and a BTS representative on issues relating to HRGs/PbR/Coding/Casemix. He has been respiratory EWG lead for last 16 years. Member of BTS Oxygen group. Member of RCP committee on issues relating to PbR/HRGs. Ex-Member of NICE COPD guidelines reference group. Particular interests also include Allergy and Occupational Lung Disease.
Project Manager
Siân Williams
Siân Williams was a national NHS management trainee and manager for 10 years. As a freelance health consultant she has acted as CEO of the GPIAG to cover maternity leave; worked across the health and social care system in Luton to improve respiratory care as part of the Modernisation Agency’s Pursuing Perfection pilot and is the Executive Officer of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group. With GPIAG colleagues she has developed the model for a Practitioner with special respiratory interest.
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