Members
The Taskforce for Lung Health has over 50 members including patients living with lung disease, their carers, healthcare professionals, charities and professional associations.
Our patient and carer representatives attend in an individual capacity to offer valuable insight into life with a lung condition. The Taskforce also benefits greatly from the specific expertise offered by clinicians and pharmacists who work with respiratory patients.
If you’d like to hear more about the work of the Taskforce and how you can get involved, please contact us.
An Industries Forum, which works alongside the Taskforce, includes representatives from the pharmaceutical, diagnostics, devices and digital industries.
Taskforce members
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis
Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis is a charity that focuses on supporting those with pulmonary fibrosis (lung scarring) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (scarring without an identifiable cause).
Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
The ABPI represents innovative research-based biopharmaceutical companies, large, medium and small, leading an exciting new era of bioscience in the UK.
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care
The ACPRC is a national body of physiotherapists interested in all aspects of respiratory care. It promotes health and best practice in respiratory physiotherapy.
Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists
The ARNS exists to champion the specialty respiratory nursing community, promote excellence in practice, and influence respiratory health policy.
Association for Respiratory Technology and Physiology (UK)
The ARTP is the professional body for practitioners in respiratory physiology and technology measurement.
Asthma + Lung UK
Asthma + Lung UK looks after anyone affected by a lung condition. Asthma + Lung UK gives people living with a lung condition hope, help and a voice through research, support, and campaigning. Asthma + Lung UK holds the secretariat for the Taskforce.
British Geriatrics Society
The BGS is the professional association of doctors, nurses and other health professionals dedicated to improving health care for older people.
British Society of Thoracic Imaging
The BSTI represents radiologists and clinicians with a specialist interest in thoracic imaging.
British Thoracic Oncology Group
The British Thoracic Oncology Group supports and educates thoracic oncology healthcare professionals, and represents the needs of people with thoracic malignancies in the UK and ensure they have equitable access to optimal care.
British Thoracic Society
The BTS exists to improve standards of care for people who have respiratory diseases and to support and develop those who provide that care.
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
The CSP is the professional, educational and trade union body for the UK’s 57,000 chartered physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and support workers.
Community Pharmacy England
Community Pharmacy England promotes and supports the interests of all NHS community pharmacies in England. Their goal is to develop the NHS community pharmacy service, to enable community pharmacies to offer an increased range of high quality and fully funded services that meet the needs of their local communities and provide value and good health outcomes for the NHS and the public.
Cystic Fibrosis Trust
The Cystic Fibrosis Trust is the only UK-wide charity dedicated to fighting for a life unlimited by cystic fibrosis for everyone affected by the condition.
Health and Safety Executive
Interstitial Lung Disease Interdisciplinary Network
Mesothelioma UK
Mesothelioma UK is a national specialist resource centre, specifically for the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. The charity provides specialist mesothelioma information, support and education, and to improving care and treatment for all UK mesothelioma patients and their carers.
Primary Care Respiratory Society
PCRS is the UK-wide professional society supporting primary care to deliver high-value patient-centred respiratory care.
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Pulmonary Fibrosis Trust
The Pulmonary Fibrosis Trust provides personal support to people affected by pulmonary fibrosis, a debilitating and life-limiting illness. The Trust offers practical, emotional and financial support as well as raising awareness of the disease and the challenges that it presents.
Respiratory Futures
Respiratory Futures is a new focal point for the UK respiratory community, building on the findings of the Respiratory Alliance and reaching across the traditional boundaries of primary and secondary care.
NHS RightCare
NHS RightCare is a national NHS England supported programme committed to delivering the best care to patients, making the NHS’s money go as far as possible and improving patient outcomes.
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is the UK’s only dedicated lung cancer charity.
Royal College of Anaesthetists
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is the professional body responsible for the specialty throughout the UK, and it ensures the quality of patient care through the maintenance of standards in anaesthesia, critical care and pain medicine.
Royal College of General Practitioners
The RCGP is the professional membership body for GPs in the UK. Its purpose is to encourage, foster and maintain the highest possible standards in general medical practice.
Royal College of Occupational Therapists
The Royal College of Occupational Therapists have championed the profession and the people behind it for over 80 years. Occupational therapy helps you live your best life at home, at work, and everywhere else. It’s about being able to do the things you want and have to do. Occupational therapists work with people diagnosed with respiratory disease from the point of diagnosis, advising on self-management approaches and providing pulmonary rehabilitation as well as palliative and end-of life care as part of a multi-disciplinary service.
Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing is the world’s largest nursing union and professional body. It represents more than 435,000 nurses, student nurses, midwives and health care assistants in the UK and internationally
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
The RCPCH’s mission is to transform child health through knowledge, innovation and expertise. It plays a major role in postgraduate medical education, professional standards, research and policy.
Royal College of Physicians
The RCP drives improvement in the diagnosis of disease, the care of individual patients and the health of the whole population both in the UK and across the globe through advocacy, education and research.
Royal College of Radiologists
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
RPS champions the role of pharmacists and are renowned as publishes of health information. Their mission is to put pharmacy at the forefront of healthcare. Their vision is to become the world leader in the safe and effective use of medicines. They do this by promoting pharmacy in the media and government, leading the way in medicines information, and supporting pharmacists in their education and development.
Sarcoidosis UK
Sarcoidosis UK‘s main goal is finding a cure for sarcoidosis. They provide information and support, raise awareness of sarcoidosis, and invest in research to understand the condition and ultimately find a cure.
Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland, on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons
The RCS is a professional membership organisation with more than 25,000 members in the UK and internationally, which seeks to advance surgical care by improving skills and knowledge, facilitating research and developing policy and guidance.
UK Lung Cancer Coalition
The UKLCC is the UK’s largest multi-interest group in lung cancer and was established in 2005 to help bring lung cancer out of the political, clinical and media shadow. Its objectives are to raise political awareness of lung cancer; help drive the improvement of lung cancer services in the UK; raise the general public’s awareness of lung cancer, especially by encouraging earlier presentation and symptom recognition; and empower patients to take an active part in their care.