The respiratory and sleep team diagnoses both adults and children for a range of conditions like lung cancer, COPD, asthma, sleep apnoea and post-Covid-19 symptoms.
A £210,000 investment has helped to improve ventilation, create more space and install new equipment. It now gives the team capacity to see up to 70 patients a day across both sites. At the height of the pandemic, the team of respiratory physiologists was redeployed to work in the intensive care unit at Craigavon Hospital. This time was used to revamp their departments to meet Covid-19 requirements. The Daisy Hill department reopened along with the Emergency Department in October with an additional two rooms and two new lung function systems.