- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Best Start Programme
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
- Blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Care management
- Children’s Community Nursing
- Children’s Community Therapies
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community rehabilitation
- Community Respiratory
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Continence
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- District nursing
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Foot Health
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecological Cancer – Genetic Testing
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Heart failure
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infant Feeding Team
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy (Community Musculoskeletal) Service
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- School Nursing
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Tissue Viability
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
- Wheelchair services
- Young Parents Maternity Service
- Acute Medicine
- Anaesthetics
- Audiology
- Behçet’s Syndrome National Centre of Excellence
- Bereavement Services
- Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre
- Blood tests
- Bowel Cancer Screening
- Breast Screening
- Breast Unit
- Cancer Services
- Cancer Support Services
- Cardiology
- Children’s Community Nursing
- Clinical Toxicology
- Colposcopy
- Community Wards
- Connected Palliative Care
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Diabetes
- Ear, nose and throat
- Elderly Care
- Emergency Department
- Female Genital Mutilation Service
- FINCH Service
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Gynaecological cancer
- Gynaecological Cancer – Genetic Testing
- Gynaecology
- Health Visiting
- Homeless Team
- Imaging
- Immunology and allergy
- Infection Control
- Integrated Care Services (iCares)
- Lung Health Checks
- Maternity
- Neonatal Unit
- Neurology
- Neurophysiology
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Health and Wellbeing
- Orthotics
- Paediatric Allergy Service
- Paediatrics
- Pain Management
- Parkinson’s Disease Service
- Pathology
- Pharmacy
- Plastic Surgery
- Poisons
- Post-Menopausal Bleeding Clinic
- Rehab Wards
- Research & Development (R&D)
- Respiratory
- Respiratory Physiology
- Rheumatology
- Sandwell Sexual Health Services
- Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Stroke Care
- Transition and Young People
- Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Urogynaecology
- Urology
- Vascular Day Surgery
- Volunteer Service
Respiratory Physiology
Operating from both City Hospital and Sandwell Hospital sites, we are a large Respiratory Physiology and Sleep Physiology Service with over 6000 patient interactions per year providing Respiratory Diagnostics, Sleep disordered breathing & ventilation and Home Oxygen Assessment & Review (HOSAR) services.
In our sleep disordered breathing & ventilation service alone we are currently caring for over 4000 patients on Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy and over 300 patients on Domiciliary Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) therapy.
We are a training department taking students from the national training programmes at both Degree and Master’s Degree Level as well as developing our own team via the Healthcare Science Practitioner Training Programme Degree and the Healthcare Science Associate L4 Apprenticeship.
Team
Michael Lang
Professional Clinical Services Manager
Amina Mohamed
Deputy Professional Clinical Services Manager
Services
Respiratory Diagnostics
- Spirometry inc Maximal flow volume curves
- Response to inhaled bronchodilators
- Static Lung Volumes by Whole Body Plethysmography or Nitrogen Washout
- Transfer Factor for Carbon Monoxide using the Single Breath Technique
- Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Testing
- Mannitol Challenge Testing
- Assessment of blood gas status via pulse oximetry
- Skin Prick Allergy Testing
- Arterialised Capillary & Arterial Blood Gases
- Field Exercise Studies
- Respiratory Muscle Function
- FeNO testing at Sandwell Hospital
Sleep Disordered Breathing & Domiciliary Ventilation
- Cardio-Respiratory Sleep Studies (Periodic Leg Movement (PLM) assessment option)
- Overnight Oximetry
- Actigraphy
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy
- Domiciliary Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) therapy
- Domiciliary Invasive Ventilation therapy
Home Oxygen Assessment & Review (HOSAR)
- Long term oxygen therapy (LTOT) assessment and review
- Ambulatory oxygen assessment (AOT) and review
- Specialist oxygen assessment and review for patients also requiring NIV or CPAP
Patient Information
Useful Websites:
https://www.blf.org.uk/support-for-you/breathing-tests
Contacts
City Hospital: 0121 507 4298
Sandwell Hospital: 0121 507 3666
