Our thoracic medicine team offers a wide range of diagnostic services and treatments for adult lung disease for the whole population of SASH.
Our thoracic medicine team offers a wide range of diagnostic services and treatments for adult lung disease for the population of Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH).
We treat a wide range of respiratory conditions including:
· Asthma
· Bronchiectasis
· COPD
· Interstitial lung diseases
· lung and pleural cancers
· Pulmonary embolism
· Pulmonary hypertension
· Pulmonary infections, such as TB and pneumonia
· Respiratory failure
· Sleep apnoea
In-patient care is at East Surrey Hospital only, while outpatient clinics are held at both East Surrey, Crawley and Horsham hospitals. Dr Simon Bax works with the Royal Brompton Hospital managing patients with interstital lung diseases locally and at Royal Brompton and Dr Jenny Bacon works with the Royal Brompton hospital, managing patients with pulmonary hypertension locally. We have a large sleep and ventilation service treating over 2500 patients with sleep disordered breathing including over 300 patients on home ventilator therapy.
Patients requiring thoracic surgery are referred by our thoracic surgery consultants who hold a clinic at East Surrey Hospital on Tuesday mornings. Surgery is carried out at St George’s Hospital.
Respiratory nurses
We have a team of Respiratory Clinical Nurse specialists who are predominantly based at our East Surrey Hospital site reviewing respiratory inpatients, working with
our respiratory wards, the wider respiratory team and acute medical team. The nurses review patients with conditions such as COPD, Asthma, ILD and Bronchiectasis and will routinely review patients with an exacerbation of COPD and an exacerbation of Asthma, which is audited.
Our nursing team also run outpatient clinics, both face to face and virtually. This includes an Oxygen assessment service which integrates with the community services covering the catchment of SASH, nebulised Colomycin initiation post Consultant assessment and provision of respiratory management plans/ patient education.
Contact details: Monday – Friday 8am – 4pm
TB team:
Telephone: 01737 768511 extension 6629 Referrals: sash.tbteam@nhs.net
Respiratory specialist nurses 01737 768511 x 2961 sash.respiratorynurses@nhs.net
Respiratory secretaries:
01737 768 511 extension 2908
Email: sash.respiratorysecretaries@nhs.net
Patient information
Useful websites
Pulmonary Hypertension Association UK
VTE/Pulmonary embolism information
TB information
Smoking cessation service
A respiratory nurse specialist meets with all respiratory patients who smoke to provide advice on how to stop and help them to identify short-term and long term goals.