Respiratory advice and guidance

Community Specialist Respiratory Team

This team offers an advice and guidance service for healthcare professionals, including those working in general practice, care homes, the ambulance service and 111.

The number is staffed by specialist nurses and physiotherapists who have access to consultant advice on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Queries could include issues such as a deteriorating NEWS score, managing acute breathlessness, oxygen weaning, management of COPD, non-compliance with medication etc.

Tel: 0333 230 1471
Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm. 

Please do not leave a voicemail, if clinicians are dealing with a call then you will be required to call back.

For non-urgent enquiries please email sirona.respiratory@nhs.net this inbox is checked daily. Please note your reply might be the next working day.

 

Respiratory advice and referrals (North Bristol NHS Trust)

If you need advice about a potential or known pleural patient or want to refer a new patient, please email PleuralTeamReferrals@nbt.nhs.uk and PleuralNurses@nbt.nhs.uk, or call pleural nurses 0117 4141027 (Mon-Fri, 8-4)

 

Home Oxygen and Review Service (HOS-AR)

This team also has a Home Oxygen and Review Service (HOS-AR), which is a service which supports the assessment and prescribing of long term oxygen therapy and ambulatory oxygen for people who have chronic hypoxia due to a long term condition such as COPD. Please see the Community Respiratory Service Page on Remedy for further information.