The respiratory department provides comprehensive care for patients with respiratory disorders. This is provided through the Somerset lung centre and respiratory ward, Coleridge. Diagnostic services are provided through our dedicated lung function department.
Investigations
- Bronchoscopy
- Thoracoscopy
- Multi-channel sleep studies
- Home ventilation and nasal CPAP service
- Exercise testing
- Lung function testing including bronchial reactivity studies
- Skin tests
- Reversibility studies
- Nebulised therapy trials nebuliser servicing for existing patients under a respiratory consultant
- Flight assessments for oxygen
- Exhaled nitric oxide testing
- Overnight sleep studies
Hospital based
- Home intravenous antibiotic therapy
- THREADS (Taunton Hospital Early Assisted Discharge Scheme) Please click here for information and referral criteria
- Macmillan nurse specialist
- Respiratory nurse specialists
Clinics
Taunton
Monday – all day
Tuesday – afternoon only
Wednesday – all day
Thursday – all day
Complex Thoracic – clinics run on the 4th Thursday of every month and Friday mornings.
There are also quarterly respiratory/rheumatology clinics.
Bridgwater
Tuesday – afternoon only
Wednesday – afternoon only
Chard
Alternate Tuesdays
Minehead
Tuesday afternoons every 2nd and 4th week of the month.
Wellington
Tuesday – afternoon
West Mendip
Tuesday afternoons every 1st and 3rd week of the month.
Patient information
Standards of quality
Routine waiting times for outpatient appointments and lung function procedures are less than 10 weeks. Urgent appointments are usually within 2 weeks.
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