Abstract

INSPIRED is an outreach program for patients and families living with advanced COPD . It was modelled on the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service (BIS): a community-functioning secondary care service developed and evaluated in a collaboration between the Department of Public Health & Primary Care (Dr Morag Farquhar) and the CUHNFT Palliative Care Team (Dr Sara Booth) using the MRC framework for complex interventions.

INSPIRED began in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is now being rolled out in 19 pilot sites across Canada supported by a federally funded quality improvement collaborative.

Professor Graeme Rocker

Dr Rocker is Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University and recently Head, Division of Respirology at Capital Health in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Beyond his medical degree he holds an Oxford University Doctorate for research into the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome and a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Toronto. He received the 2009 Roger Bone Award from the American College of Chest physicians for advances in end-of-life care. He leads the INSPIRED COPD outreach program for patients and families living with advanced COPD . In 2013 Dr Rocker was appointed Clinical Improvement Advisor to the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement.