COPD Update Training
for Registered Practitioners
📅 Duration: 3 hours
👩⚕️ Audience: Registered healthcare professionals involved in COPD care, respiratory assessment, COPD reviews or long-term condition management
🏥 Format: Available live online or face-to-face at your organisation
Can be booked: As a standalone COPD Update or combined with Asthma Update as a full day (6 hour) respiratory update session
👥 Group Size: Up to 10 delegates
COPD Update Training for Healthcare Professionals
Course Details:
Delivered in partnership with Clarion healthcare Education, this training refreshes key areas of COPD care, including diagnosis, A&P, history taking, objective testing, phenotype awareness, exacerbation risk, medicines and non-pharmacological management.
COPD has a significant impact across UK healthcare. NICE states that around 1.2 million people in the UK have a diagnosis of COPD, with many more people likely to remain undiagnosed. Regular COPD update training helps clinicians recognise risk, review treatment safely, support follow-up and strengthen patient education around treatment, self-management and person-centred goal setting.
This session is designed to support clinicians involved in COPD reviews, respiratory assessment and long-term condition care. This course includes an overview of updated COPD guidelines and highlights key changes relevant to clinical practice. It also explores whole-person care, including mental health, obesity and co-existing conditions, with case study discussion around breathlessness and exacerbator phenotype.
Learning Outcomes – COPD Update for Nurses
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Refresh their understanding of COPD diagnosis, including history taking, objective testing and clinical presentation
- Describe COPD phenotypes and why they matter in relation to risk, treatment planning and review
- Identify key COPD risk factors, including exacerbation risk, breathlessness and indicators for follow-up
- Understand relevant COPD guideline updates and consider how they apply to clinical practice
- Apply a whole-person approach, including mental health, obesity, co-existing conditions and the wider impact of COPD
- Review COPD medicines, treatment principles and evidence-based medicine management
- Discuss non-pharmacological COPD care, including person-centred goal setting and supported self-management
- Consider opportunities for practice improvement, such as audit, risk stratification, system review or implementing change within COPD clinics
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Why Choose Hickby?
👩⚕️ Nurse-led expertise
Delivered by experienced Clinical Nurse Educators with real-world practice.
🎓 CPD accredited
Assurance that training meets national professional standards.
📖 Evidence-based
Aligned with NICE, RCN, and NMC guidance for safe, effective care.
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