
Ketan Patel
110 posts

Ketan Patel
@Inhaler_Doc
Respiratory Physician with a special interest in Integrated Care and COPD research.


🫁 We are proud to be offering a pilot project with remote monitoring for patients with COPD over winter to support early treatment of exacerbations and prevent attendance to ED and Primary care. Criteria? Tower Hamlets patients with 2 COPD admissions or more in the past year. 🌟




Treating eosinophilic exacerbations of #asthma and #COPD with benralizumab (ABRA): a double-blind, double-dummy, active placebo-controlled randomised trial Read open access here: thelancet.com/journals/lanre… @MonaBafadhel @BTSrespiratory @SanjayResp @kingsmedicine
















A low point today. Our team referred someone for Spirometry (we are not commissioned) and a Consultant has accused us of referring inappropriately and denying deserving patients appointments. The ICB says that they shouldn't decline, the LMC are not interested. Patients lose.




