Respiratory Medicine - Lung Disease

Our thoracic/respiratory medicine service aims to develop and deliver comprehensive services for patients with all types of lung disease.

Physicians with large experience and expertise provide services across the whole of respiratory medicine in association with nurse practitioners and respiratory physiologists.

We see and care for patients with:

• Asthma
• Bronchiectasis
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Cystic fibrosis
• Interstitial lung disease
• Lung cancer
• Occupational lung disease
• Pleural disease
• Pulmonary embolism
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Sleep disorders / requiring non-invasive ventilation
• Tuberculosis

Our services also include:

• Ambulatory oxygen and flight assessment
• Bronchial reactivity testing
• Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
• Diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy including endobronchial ultrasound
• Full lung function testing
• Sleep studies
• Thoracoscopy
• Tuberculosis screening

Further information on our services and clinical research programme can be found on our website www.lungsheffield.org

Referrals

Brearley Outpatient Department
A Floor - Brearley Wing
Northern General Hospital
Herries Road
Sheffield
S5 7AU

Please visit the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit section of the website for details of how to refer patients in whom pulmonary hypertension or chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is suspected. 

For more information about this service call 0114 2714725 

Further Information

Patient Information Leaflets

Patient Information Videos

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