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1 October 2024

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… Read more...

1 October 2024

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).… Read more...

20 September 2024

Following a service's accreditation journey
The last time we spoke with Rachel, she had been working with her team towards accreditation, the PRSAS team has met with her again to discuss their accreditation journey since… Read more...

4 July 2024

Join our team of PRSAS assessors!
PRSAS accreditation is a supportive process of evaluating the quality of clinical services against established standards. It promotes improvement through highlighting areas of best practice and areas for change, encouraging… Read more...

21 June 2024

A PR programme - Imperial College Healthcare PR Service
To celebrate PR awareness week this year, the PRSAS team has looked at the process of a PR programme, from the initial referral until the final assessment and discharge. We… Read more...

20 June 2024

PRSAS - PR awareness week - Patient poster
As part of the celebrations for pulmonary rehabilitation awareness week 2024, we have co-produced a patient poster with Asthma+Lung UK to help explain pulmonary rehabilitation to patients. To download, click… Read more...

24 May 2024

PR awareness week 2024
Join us for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Awareness Week from Monday 17 June – Friday 21 June and look further into how pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) can benefit patients with stable lung conditions. The Pulmonary Rehabilitation… Read more...

10 May 2024

Volunteers needed!
We are planning a redesign of the homepages of our websites to standardise how they look across the accreditation unit (including the PRSAS website). We would like to get feedback… Read more...

18 April 2024

Enya Daynes: Patient safety and PRSAS
In February 2024, we welcomed Enya Daynes as the new quality lead for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services Accreditation Scheme (PRSAS), Enya has written a blog about the importance of patient… Read more...

5 April 2024

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… Read more...

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