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IDEAS to Raise Awareness Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week June 15-19 2026

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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Pulmonary Rehabilitation Can lead to a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life offers a powerful way to think about how pulmonary rehabilitation can change lives. In the film, George Bailey learns that his presence and everyday actions have quietly shaped the well-being of others. Pulmonary rehabilitation works in a similar way. Its impact is often gradual and understated, but for many people living with chronic lung disease, it can prevent despair and restore a sense of possibility.

In It’s a Wonderful Life, the “sliding doors” moment arrives when George is shown what the world would look like if he had never existed. Without him, Bedford Falls becomes a harsher, more isolating place. This moment reveals how close George has been to losing hope without realizing the value of his life. For people with long-term breathlessness, a similar turning point often occurs before pulmonary rehabilitation. Shortness of breath can quietly shrink a person’s world. Activities are avoided, confidence fades, and life becomes defined by limits rather than choices.

Pulmonary rehabilitation represents the other side of the sliding door. Instead of continuing down a path of fear and restriction, patients are offered practical tools to manage breathlessness. Through guided exercise, education, and support, people learn that movement does not have to mean panic or danger. Over time, shortness of breath becomes more manageable, and the sense of constant struggle begins to ease.

Just as George Bailey underestimates his own strength, many patients underestimate what their bodies can still do. Pulmonary rehabilitation helps rebuild that trust. As muscles strengthen and breathing techniques improve, everyday tasks such as walking, climbing stairs, or spending time with family feel possible again. This physical change often brings emotional relief. Less breathlessness means less fear, less fatigue, and a renewed belief in one’s own capabilities.

The final scene of It’s a Wonderful Life, with the Bailey family and friends gathered in a joyful embrace, offers a fitting metaphor for the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation. The embrace symbolizes connection, relief, and the return of hope. In the context of pulmonary rehabilitation, it reflects the renewed ability to take part in life with less shortness of breath. Patients are no longer watching from the side-lines. They are present, engaged, and included.

Like the film’s ending, pulmonary rehabilitation does not erase hardship. Lung disease remains, just as George’s financial troubles do not magically disappear. What changes is perspective and support. People are no longer facing their challenges alone. In both stories, hope emerges not from a dramatic rescue, but from steady guidance, shared effort, and the rediscovery of what makes life worth living.

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