Innovation Collaborative: Breath easier with digitally-enabled asthma support. Clare’s story (Short)
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Health professionals in Nottinghamshire are using digital technology to help people living with asthma to better manage and monitor their condition from the comfort of home.
Nurses based at King’s Medical Centre, Sutton-In-Ashfield, are supporting patients to take control of their condition through technology-enabled remote monitoring and digital self-management plans.
Early results from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s pilot project, the focus of a new video, shows patients are benefiting from improved condition management, fewer hospital admissions and reductions to medication.
The video, commissioned by tThe NHS National Innovation Collaborative for digital health, features the team behind the project and patient Clare Le-Grice, who lives with asthma and has benefited from the nurse-led initiative.
Clare, 51, uses a peak flow device provided by the practice to take her breathing score each day and an app to send the score to the nursing team, who monitor her condition on a personalised digital chart that she can also see.
Clare said: “Asthma affects every area of my life. I can see with my peak flows whether my breathing is getting worse or improving. I’ve got all the information I need, and it just works so much better for me.”
The video features four nurses central to the project; King’s Medical Centre Lead Practice Nurse Sara-Louise Smith and Practice Nurse Sarah Coupe, and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Respiratory Nurse Specialists Hiedi Swift and Sarah Tweddle.
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