COPD Right Care Update April 2022

The COPD Right Care project has been developed on the back of the success of the Asthma Right Care project which created and developed tools that have enabled behaviour changing conversations between health professionals and people with asthma. The COPD Right Care project aims to achieve the same for people with COPD. 

The COPD project includes two concepts developed with international colleagues to help primary care practitioners to do the right thing with their patients to influence a change in prescribing behaviour for inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and to provide more personalised and safe choices for people with COPD. The two tools in development are:

COPD Right Care Wheel
This is intended to support health care prescribers who know people with COPD need inhaled medicine(s) but are unsure which option to choose, and to help clinicians develop their COPD consultation skills by working with people with COPD to understand what the condition is, what might happen to them and to improve their adherence to therapies. 

COPD Right Care Steroid Alert Safety Card
The inhaled steroid safety card is established within England’s National Health Service drug safety system. The tool has been developed to support safe prescribing for people with asthma and COPD and to trigger prescribers to consider whether the ICS or the dose is appropriate. This then needs a steroid card issue and a safety discussion. The Right Care project has developed this tool for use in other countries.

Our output so far will be on display in Málaga at the 11th IPCRG World Conference from 5-7 May 2022. Visit our stand to find out more.