COPD

Rachel Booker is a former respiratory specialist nurse with extensive experience of nursing in primary care and medical education. She is a recipient of the Queen's Nursing Institute, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother's award for outstanding service and is an honorary master of the Open University. An independent medical writer and editor, she has published extensively, and is author of Vital COPD and Vital Lung Function.  Dr Jon Miles MD, FCRP is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at North Manchester General Hospital. Dr David Bellamy is a former GP with special respiratory interest. A trainer for Education for Health, he writes and lectures on respiratory topics and is a member of PCRS-UK, BTS and ERS.  June Roberts SRN, DipHE (PN), FETC, DipAsthma, DipCOPD, DipAllergy is a nurse practitioner at Langworthy Medical Practice, Salford. She is also Honory Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, and facilitator at Education for Health, Warwick. 

1. What is COPD?

2. Work and the environment

3. How is COPD diagnosed

4. Stopping smoking

5. Treatment

6. Inhalers and nebulisers

7. Oxygen therapy

8. Exercise and fitness

9. Living with COPD

10. Getting help

11. Research and the future