Remote Pulmonary Rehabilitation
The Tele-pulmonary rehabilitation (tele-PR) project was designed to accelerate the pace of the adoption of a tele-pulmonary rehabilitation programme model in Scotland, based on a model developed in Tayside in 2008. A tele-PR model can play a vital role in enabling more people from across Scotland to access self management support services and be empowered to self manage their condition.
The key objectives for the project were:
- Improved patient access to information, support and resources, leading to better management of long-term lung disease
- Improved health, well-being and empowerment of COPD patients
- Increased physical fitness through the pulmonary rehabilitation and maintenance classes
- Reduced exacerbations and anxiety
- Improved quality of life and greater independence
- Reduced social isolation through peer support
- Fewer emergency admissions to hospital through improved access to information and advice
- Strengthening a self management model of tele-rehabilitation which can be applied to other long term conditions.
Two summary reports are available, following the end of the project funding in June 2011.
Further funding is being sought from LTCAS to support the development and sustainability of this work.
For further details, please contact Christine McClusky, Service Development Manager, SCT, by email: christine.mcclusky@nhs.net