Lung Function/Sleep Services

Fit for the Future is part of the One Gloucestershire vision, focussing on the medium and long term future of specialist hospital services at Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Lung Function and Sleep Services

Engagement

We talked with you about an opportunity to change the way Lung Function and Sleep Services are provided and explore what this could mean for you, your family and our staff. The ideas were based on the desire to make best use of our dedicated specialist staff, equipment and our two thriving hospital sites.

We heard from current patients of the service as well as people who might need to use the services in the future. The engagement closed on Monday 6 September 2021.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to feedback to this engagement. All reports and further information can be found in the links to the right of the page.

Implementation

The Lung Function and Sleep service are expected to move out of their current Gloucester Royal Hospital (GRH) location from March 2022. The service will then set up their spoke site at GRH and expand into their temporary location at Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH). Once the Catheter Labs for Interventional Cardiology are completed in GRH, this will mean that Interventional Cardiology can move out of their space in CGH which will be used to develop the permanent hub for Lung Function and sleep services. We are expecting the work on the main hub to start in September 2022 and be finished in January 2023.

The service anticipate that around 100-150 lung cancer patients per year will visit the hospital once, as opposed to twice under the new hub and spoke model. In future, it is also possible that for sleep patients who make up around 5-10% of referrals (1,200 patients per year) would visit the service once as opposed to four times throughout the pathway, as a result of issuing sleep equipment from the hospital site.