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In each issue of
Respiratory Care Today
we investigate a hot topic currently
affecting our readers. In this issue, Samantha Prigmore asks...
Is integrated respiratory care
the way to go?
W
e all know that respiratory
disease is an all-too
common condition
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resulting in significant personal and
economic burden. How do we know
this? Partly because of the numbers
— approximately one-in-five people
in the UK is affected by a respiratory
disease, resulting in approximately
one million admissions to hospital
and accounting for 80,000 deaths a
year (All Parliamentary Party Group
[APPG], 2014).
Samantha Prigmore, respiratory nurse consultant,
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trust