The BTS Quality Standard in Pulmonary Rehabilitation provides healthcare professionals, commissioners and service users with standards of care to guide and measure progress. The updated quality standard follows the release of BTS Professional Framework for Pulmonary Rehabilitation earlier this year.
The document outlines three fundamentals that all pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) services should have in place, plus a set of six quality statements. The primary points are:
- Individuals with symptomatic chronic respiratory disease should be offered timely PR.
- Referrals should be enrolled within 30 days of discharge.
- Those eligible should receive a multi-system assessment.
- Referrals should have access to centre-based PR.
- Individuals who decline centre-based PR should be offered an alternative.
- Those completing PR should be supported in ongoing exercise maintenance.
Read the new BTS Quality Standard in Pulmonary Rehabilitation on the BTS website.
Read the Professional Framework for Pulmonary Rehabilitation on the BTS website
Listen to a podcast episode about the new Quality Standard and Professional Framework