Chest Clinic Profile

The Chest Clinic comprises a self contained suite of rooms attached
to the main outpatient block.  There is one main consulting room and
3 subsidiary examination rooms. 
There is a treatment room which doubles as a bronchoscopy room
and cardiopulmonary exercise laboratory. 
There is a 3 room lung function laboratory with 4 consultant offices,
a respiratory nurse office / interview room and a modern
self-contained radiology suite. 
Additional bronchoscopy facilities are available in a day case theatre.

Service Provision

Blackpool is a specialist centre of Respiratory medicine incorporating a Sleep investigation unit providing services to neighbouring districts, Cardiopulmonary exercise laboratory, full radiology and bronchoscopy facilities and a regional Cardiothoracic Surgical unit.

Services include the 'Blackpool Asthma Plan' shared care scheme,
Nasal Ventilation Programme for
Acute and Chronic Ventilatory    failure, and  a  Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme. Chemotherapy for small cell lung cancer is undertaken in a weekly chest clinic session.

A weekly joint Cardiothoracic/Medical/Radiological clinic operates in parallel with an Oncology/Radiotherapy clinic in an adjacent outpatient area once each  week, in collaboration with  visiting Clinical
Oncologists.

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