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  • East of England - A region approach to PR accreditation

    In August, the PRSAS team met with Sarah Claydon, Quality Improvement Project Officer – pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) Accreditation with East of England to discuss the process of engaging a project officer and take a region approach to accreditation. Sarah’s post will be ending towards the end of 2024, and 6 out of the 10 selected services will have completed their site assessment by the end of the 2023/2024 financial year - which a fantastic achievement for everyone involved!

  • The importance of patient safety in pulmonary rehabilitation

    Newcastle Hospitals Respiratory Service is a pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) service, who were accredited in 2023, and have recently completed their first annual review with PRSAS (Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services Accreditation Scheme). An area the team has been continuously congratulated on is their patient involvement and focus that has been embedded within their PR service. Patient safety day took place on 17 September, so to celebrate this and recognise the great work this team has done, we spoke with the team about what patient safety and PRSAS means to them!

  • Enya Daynes: Patient safety and PRSAS

    New quality lead for PRSAS

  • Following a service's accreditation journey

    We sat down with Rachel Williams, a respiratory physiotherapist and co-clinical lead South West Respiratory Network. The PRSAS team will be following the Cornwall Pulmonary Rehabilitation Team through a series of blogs to discuss their experiences of the PRSAS accreditation journey from beginning to end.

  • Celebrating 5 years of PRSAS - Kent Community Health Pulmonary Rehabilitation Team

    To celebrate our five-year anniversary of the PRSAS programme, we’ve sat down with members of our Pulmonary Rehabilitation community to hear what their experience has been. To kick us off, we’ve talked to Kate Savage (clinical lead physiotherapist) and Pramod Selkar (head of service) from Kent Community Health Pulmonary Rehabilitation Team to hear about their journey through the accreditation pathway. Kent Community Health was the fifth service to be accredited by the PRSAS programme in February 2022, and were commended by their patients and managers in their feedback. They’ve gone from strength to strength since their accreditation and have become a pioneer of the PRSAS programme within their network.
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