The COPD Pathway with Jonathon Will and Tom Fardon

In this session we will examine a new pathway which is emerging
within Scotland and north of England. The Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (COPD) pathway has been designed to both
specialise treatment and expedite specialist care to this cohort
of patients. NHS data shows that in 2020/21, approximately 1.17
million people in England have been diagnosed with COPD, which is
around 1.9% of the population. 


To host the conversation I have Jonathon Will with me. Jonathon
is a registered Paramedic working with the Scottish Ambulance
Service (SAS), he has also worked as an Emergency Care Paramedic
within various Emergency Department Resuscitation units. His last
two years has been spent working as the Clinical Effectiveness
Lead within SAS and a National improvement Advisor for urgent and
unscheduled care within NHS Scotland. Tom Fardon is a Respiratory
Consultant within NHS Tayside, with a specialist interest in
airways disease (COPD, Asthma and Bronchiectasis). Tom is also
the clinical lead for the managed clinical network within Tayside
and the chair of the national advisory group for respiratory
medicine, also the lead for respiratory care action plan within
NHS Scotland. He also leads the Scottish Respiratory advisory
committee to initiate the recommendations within the respiratory
care action plan. In the conversation we talk about: 


* The pathology of COPD; what’s going on with these patients and
how these patients normally present to the ambulance
service. 


* Physiological tolerance and adaptation over time. 


* Why this pathway has been designed? (what is the current
problem)


* How the key clinicians and specialisms have been brought
together * End points that the pathway serves 


* Improvements to the current services


* What tiers of patients this pathway serves 


* What happens to the life-threatening COPD patients 


* What a patient could expect when they go through the
pathway. 


* What the future holds 


* Take homes messages  





Please find more about the pathway here:
https://www.consultantconnect.org.uk/copd-pathway-tayside/


Consultant Connect are partly responsible for supporting this
pathway and can be found here:
https://www.consultantconnect.org.uk/ 





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