The National Clinical Programme (NCP) Respiratory, along with NCP Diabetes and NCP Heart Failure, form the main components of the Integrated Care Programme for Chronic Disease (ICPCD). NCP Respiratory, as part of the ICPCD working alongside the Enhanced Community Care (ECC) Programme, focuses on the implementation of the Integrated Models of Care for COPD and Asthma. These Models of Care use an end-to-end patient-centred integrated approach for the prevention, early detection, slowing of disease progression, and the provision of optimal management for people with COPD and Asthma. Our models are  in keeping with the Sláintecare vision of ‘Right Care, Right Place, Right Time’. Community Specialist Respiratory Teams within Integrated Respiratory Services are already functioning and this new way of working is already shifting patient care to the left, away from our acute hospitals.

The following integrated videos are available to view:

• Introduction to integrated respiratory care
• Chronic Disease Management Programme
• GP access to spirometry
• Integrated Respiratory Physiotherapy
• Integrated Respiratory Nursing
• Integrated Pulmonary rehabilitation
• COPD Outreach
• Operational Lead
• Patient experience of COPD Outreach - Brendan
• Patient experience of integrated care - Joe
• Patient experience of integrated care - Rose
• Patient experience of integrated care - Seamus
• Patient experience of integrated care - Patsy

All individual videos can be found here (YouTube)

NCP Respiratory Team

The current NCP Respiratory Team also includes:

• Clinical Lead Professor Breda Cushen
• ICGP/HSE GP Lead Dr Shane McKeogh
• HSCP Lead Vacant
• Nurse Lead Vacant
• Programme Manager Susan Curtis

GP Chronic Disease Management Programme

GPs are delivering the Structured Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Programme in General Practice for COPD and Asthma patients programme. The CDM programme, has been running since 2020 and has yielded some encouraging results which are available here.

Patient Advocacy Groups

NCP Respiratory meets regularly with COPD Support Ireland (COPDSI), the Asthma Society of Ireland (ASI) and the Alpha-1 Foundation Ireland. All parties have agreed on a collaborative approach to compliment the Models of Care for both COPD and Asthma. The Asthma Society of Ireland delivers patient advice lines for both Asthma and COPDSI delivers COPD patient exercise and support groups.

Please direct any enquiries to the programme manager at susan.curtis@hse.ie