{"id":1232,"date":"2016-12-09T14:43:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2016-12-09T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:43:11","slug":"new-report-chss-evaluation-of-blf-integrated-breathe-easy-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2016\/12\/09\/new-report-chss-evaluation-of-blf-integrated-breathe-easy-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW REPORT: CHSS Evaluation of BLF Integrated Breathe Easy Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Do &#8216;Breathe Easy&#8217; patient groups improve health outcomes in chronic lung disease?<\/h1>\n<p>Over the past two decades, the British Lung Foundation (BLF), has made impressive progress setting up a nationwide support network of Breathe Easy (BE) groups for those living with lung conditions, and family and friends who support them. In 2014, with a grant from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta), the BLF started a nationwide project to integrate more of their BE groups into the existing local healthcare pathway.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blf.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/IntegratedBreatheEasy-081216a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CHSS report<\/a> from the outcome and economic evaluation of this two year project has now been published.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/chss\/research\/docs\/current\/2014_04_04_blf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more about the CHSS evaluation &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blf.org.uk\/health-care-professionals\/commissioners-and-service-planners\/community-support\/integrated-breathe\" target=\"_blank\">More information on the BLF website<\/a> &gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do &#8216;Breathe Easy&#8217; patient groups improve health outcomes in chronic lung disease? Over the past two decades, the British Lung Foundation (BLF), has made impressive progress setting up a nationwide support network of Breathe Easy (BE) groups for those living with lung conditions, and family and friends who support them. In 2014, with a grant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2016\/12\/09\/new-report-chss-evaluation-of-blf-integrated-breathe-easy-groups\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35851,"featured_media":1233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}