Pulmonary Rehabilitation – Portsmouth City & Hampshire

The Pulmonary Rehabilitation team provides combined exercise and education classes to patients with specific long-term respiratory conditions, such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchiectasis, Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILDs) and Asthma (Portsmouth CCG only).

Our classes include muscle strengthening and cardiovascular exercises, to improve the symptoms associated, and education to improve knowledge on managing these conditions. Both these elements aim to improve quality of life.

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Referral criteria

Referral criteria:

• Confirmed diagnosis of COPD/ Bronchiectasis/ILD, where daily living activities are limited by dyspnoea.
• Patients experiencing decreasing exercise tolerance
• On optimum drug therapy
• Motivated to attend

Exclusion criteria:

• Breathlessness caused by other morbidity e.g. heart failure/IHD
• Recovering from a recent MI (3/12)
• Unstable Blood Pressure or cardiac symptoms
• Psychiatric, cognitive or locomotor problems which would prevent participation in exercise or group
• Co-morbidities made worse by exercise

If a patient has previously attended a complete programme but their lung condition has not deteriorated and shows no educational or exercise needs, please consider other community support options – see Additional information section.

To refer patients onto our services, please complete our most up to date referral form and email it across to snhs.pulmonary-rehab@nhs.net or post to our office. Please ensure all sections are correctly filled, as this will avoid delay to patient care.

New patient referral form on PIP (GP -Respiratory section) SPA referrals