Dorset Adult Integrated Respiratory Service (DAIRS)
Who are we?
We are a team of specialist nurses, physiotherapists and health care assistants specialising in chronic lung conditions for those patients living within East Dorset and the Purbecks. We have a team based at Poole Hospital who cares for patients registered with Poole and Purbeck GPs and a team based at Bournemouth Hospital for patients registered with Bournemouth GPs.
Who do we see?
We support care for patients with the following chronic lung conditions:
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) / Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Bronchiectasis
- Asthma
We also provide the local home oxygen assessment service.
Patients must be under a respiratory consultant at Poole Hospital or the Royal Bournemouth Hospital to access DAIRS and the oxygen assessment service.
What do we do?
- Supported discharge from hospital for COPD patients with home visits and/or telephone calls
- Admission avoidance
- Clinics – COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis, oxygen and physiotherapy, including a satellite clinic at Swanage hospital
- Joint respiratory palliative care clinic (currently at Poole Hospital)
- Education on managing condition and symptoms
How to contact us?
Poole DAIRS 0300 019 8483
Working hours 8am-430pm 7 days a week
Bournemouth DAIRS 0300 019 6122
Working hours 8am-4pm 7 days a week
Links to patient information
- British Lung Foundation 03000 030 555
- Cause of alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
- Asthma support
- What is bronchiectasis and how is it caused?
- Pulmonary fibrosis support
- COPD support
- Asthma UK 0300 222 5800
- Inhaler videos
- Life with pulmonary fibrosis
- British Thoracic Society
- Bronchiectasis News Today
- NHS University Hospitals Plymouth Physiotherapy Active Cycle of Breathing Technique video
- NHS University Hospitals Plymouth Physiotherapy Flutter video
Patient information leaflets
You can view our patient information leaflets by clicking here