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Home oxygen services
Prescribing home oxygen
Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Liverpool, UK
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Correspondence to:
Ben Shaw
Liverpool Women’s Hospital, Crown Street, Liverpool L8 7SS, UK; Ben.Shaw@lwh.nhs.uk
Accepted 16 January 2007
The new oxygen service—providing consistency throughout the UK
Keywords: Home oxygen; respiratory disease
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Home oxygen therapy services have a vital role in supporting children with breathing difficulties, including those with long-term medical conditions such as chronic lung disease of the newborn, pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, neurodisability and cystic fibrosis.1 This article discusses the practicalities of prescribing oxygen for children who require it in the home.
Until recently, oxygen was prescribed by the patient’s general practitioner (GP), with a supplier providing the oxygen concentrator service and local pharmacies supplying oxygen cylinders to patients in their homes. Liquid oxygen was only available following application to the primary care trust (PCT) for funding. This resulted in variations and inconsistencies throughout the UK in the way home oxygen was prescribed, used and delivered. In 2003, the Department of Health2 announced plans to modernise the domiciliary oxygen service to improve patient access to a wider range of modern technologies supporting patients’ clinical care and other needs.
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