By use
Patient information
Written to be read by the patient in a clinic letter. Plain English, no abbreviations, and every instruction actionable.
- Patient information Asthma - information for patients What asthma is, why the preventer matters more than the reliever, and what to do when it gets worse. Written to go straight into a clinic letter.
- Patient information Bronchiectasis - information for patients The daily routine that keeps bronchiectasis stable, with airway clearance first because it is the treatment that works.
- Patient information Bronchiectasis exacerbation plan The written plan the patient keeps: what counts as an exacerbation, which antibiotic, for how long, and when 14 days is not enough.
- Patient information COPD - information for patients What COPD is, and the four things that make the biggest difference, in the order they make it.
- Patient information COPD rescue pack instructions When to start the emergency antibiotics and steroids, when not to, and what to do straight afterwards.
- Patient information Pulmonary fibrosis - information for patients What fibrosis is and what can be done about it, written without either false reassurance or foreclosure.
- Patient information After a lung cancer diagnosis - information for patients What happens next in the days after the diagnosis is given, written to be read again at home when the conversation has blurred.
- Patient information Lung nodules - information for patients Telling someone their scan found a spot that is probably nothing, without making it sound like nothing or like everything.
- Patient information Indwelling pleural catheter - information for patients What the tube is, how draining at home works, and the signs that mean ring us today.
- Patient information Pneumothorax - information for patients What a collapsed lung is, what happens next, and the rules about flying, diving and smoking that people are rarely told clearly.
- Patient information Sleep apnoea and CPAP - information for patients What the diagnosis means, what CPAP actually does, and the first fortnight that decides whether someone keeps using it.
- Patient information Snoring and sleep advice For the person whose sleep study was normal, or whose snoring is the problem rather than the apnoea.