Interstitial Lung Disease - FOI Response Register

Please can you send me:

NHS Shetland do not provide this service. All referrals and specialist staff are provided by NHS Grampian

NHS Shetland use NHS Grampian’s referral pathway (attached)

1. 1. A copy of the guidelines for GPs to refer patients with suspected ILD to specialist respiratory

services.

2. A copy of your board’s ILD diagnosis pathway.
3. Information about ILD MDT meetings held by clinicians in your Board areas, including:

o Which professionals attend ILD MDT meetings.
o The schedule for holding of ILD MDT meetings.
o The number of patients considered at each ILD MDT meeting.
o The number of patients marked “suspected ILD” who have been referred to an ILD MDT in each of the past three years.

4. The number of the following healthcare professionals currently working in the health board, and the site where they are based:

o medical consultants and registrars with stated specialism in ILD (including but not limited
to radiology and respiratory)
o ILD specialist nurses
o ILD specialist pharmacists
o ILD specialist physiotherapists

5. The number of antifibrotic prescriptions initiated for patients living in your NHS board areas in each of the last three years.

Nintedanib – nil from GBH
Pirfenidone – nil from GBH