IMPRESS is a joint initiative between the two leading respiratory clinical societies in the UK: the British Thoracic Society and the Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS)-UK.
"Providing the clinical leadership required to drive improvements in care across /beyond the traditional boundaries of primary care and secondary care to achieve high quality integrated patient centred care for the population with or at risk of respiratory disease."
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Practical solutions to commissioning and providing high quality respiratory and end of life care.
Click here to access the webcasts
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In addition to the entries on the quality and productivity and integration pages, these pages showcase award winners from the last five years, many of which are also examples of improved integration. They are categorised into:
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General respiratory services
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COPD
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Asthma
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Oxygen
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Sleep
For further examples of good practice see the relevant pages on the NHS Improvement website here.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 IMPRESS Awards
Category I - Improving quality Winner: The role of the third sector influencing clinical practice in respiratory support MND Association? - download poster

Category II - Increasing high value services and reducing low value services Winner: Increasing the value of COPD care in Islington using a Local Enhanced Service (LES) to improve COPD case finding and management - download poster

Category III - Integration across boundaries Winner: COPD Rescue Packs: Why you should make them and how to do it. - download poster

2009 IMPRESS Award winners - click here
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