DEAS to Raise Awareness. for Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week 1 Have a poster about PR in pharmacies, with a QR code link to a PR video • Pharmacy teams can help increase awareness…
2 Invite your pharmacy teams to an online meeting & explain the benefits of PR have a patient who has completed PR with you.
3 Can your PR patients who have completed PR do an online Question and Answer session for potential refers
4 Add a QR code to your PR referral form link it to a video that explains the benefits of PR
5 Arrange an online meeting with your local hospital discharge team to explain how PR can reduce the time patients spend in a hospital if they complete PR
6 Recruit patient volunteers who have completed PR to help advertise PR
7 Send a Press release to local media about PR, Press release drop box https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qx933n…
8 PR patient champions in the media sharing their story about the benefits of PR.
9 Encourage patients to post a message on social media, about how PR helped them.
10 PR video of PR in GP surgeries.
11 Invite your local: Mayor, Councillors, MP, Chief Executive of health services, Integrated Care System, Health Service Board, HE Trust Board members, to open PR session
12 Live PR sessions on TV, Radio interview about PR, Produce a video about how PR benefits patients.
13 Activity challenges for staff and patients’ virtual walks, sit to stand, step challenges.
14 Invite your Respiratory Consultants to try a pulmonary rehab session.
15 Target the lowest refers or non refers to PR.
16 Prize giving ceremony for the top local referrer of patients who have completed PR. Reward and recognise excellence in PR referral • Rewarding and recognising excellence in Pu…
17 Invite your local social prescribes to try a pulmonary rehab exercise class
18 Invite potential refers to a weekly online meeting Zoom or Microsoft teams meeting explain the benefits of PR have a patient with you
19 Ask your local patients where you need to advertise PR
20 Can your patients who have completed PR do an online Question and Answer session for university pre-registration health care students, explaining how they benefited from PR.
21 Send this video link to healthcare lecturers and university course leaders . Jody Bryant Associate Professor GIVING STUDENTS A UNIQUE INSIGHT Pulmonary Rehab Awareness • Jody Bryant Associate Professor GIVING STU…
22 Set up a stall, carryout a meet and greet in the entrances to the following supermarkets, low referring GP surgeries, Hospital Restaurants, Hospitals Entrances. Respiratory departments, bingo halls, football stadiums, social services offices, social clubs 21 Invite healthcare professionals to try a PR class. . Respiratory consultants try pulmonary rehab exercise class so they can explain PR to patients better • UHDB Consultants take part in Pulmonary Re…
23 Invite to an online meeting, practice nurses, GP’s, lung transplant team, frailty team explain the benefits of PR, have a patient with you 23 Invite your local social workers & social prescribes to an online meeting explain the of PR. 24 Plan a local pulmonary rehab exercise flash mob
25 Low referrals offer observation only session to patients who would benefit from PR before they do the pre-PR exercise assessment.
26 Set up an online meeting explain the ability of PR to free up hospital bed space to your local 👉Hospital👉Health Board 👉 Integrated Care Board 👉Health Trust 👉 Hospital discharge Team, 👉HSE 👉 PR reduces time spent in a hospital bed by 4:8 days if completed
27 Organise a PR exercise flash mob • Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise Flash Mo…
28 Screen saver at the hospital about PR, with a QR code to your PR video
29 Design a PR patient information leaflet with your patients awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation
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