title: Setting up a buddy scheme for pulmonary rehabilitation.
abstract: North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus's HOPE specialist service has developed one of the most successful pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes nationally. One element of this service is the use of buddies (expert patients with COPD), who assist with the design and delivery of the programme, alongside the specialist multidisciplinary team. This service has some of the best patient outcomes seen nationally; it won two awards in December 2007. This article outlines how the service was established and its outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Hope Street specialist service, North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus, Hope Street Medical Centre, Grimsby.
authors.forename: Pamela
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hancock
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cox
mesh_terms: D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000379:methods*; D006113:United Kingdom