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Gail Miles: How a nurse-led unit supports patients with respiratory disease

Set up ten years ago in Rotherham, a former coalmining community with high rates of COPD, the nurse-led BreathingSpace unit focuses on providing pulmonary rehabilitation and has kept hundreds of patients out of hospital
Posted 13 November 2017 - 06:59
 
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