EitC Teams Up With AstraZeneca To Launch England’s First Community-Based Heart And Lung Screening Hub
EitC Teams Up With AstraZeneca To Launch England’s First Community-Based Heart And Lung Screening Hub
Everton in the Community has partnered with AstraZeneca to set up England’s first heart and lung community-based screening hub, providing significant support for individuals suffering from chronic breathlessness.
Made possible thanks to unrestricted grant funding from global science-led pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, the official charity of Everton Football Club will run the unique hub from the recently opened People’s Place. The hub will introduce a novel clinical workflow supported by the latest technologies and specialist input from a multidisciplinary team of primary care, heart and lung specialists to focus on early diagnosis and early treatment for chronic breathlessness in a community care setting. Patients can either walk in from the local community or be signposted by their local primary care organisation.
The heart and lung screening hub will work to raise awareness of medical conditions which cause chronic breathlessness, offer screenings for heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and other chronic conditions which are common in the local population as well as offer lifestyle reviews and advice.