Due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions we are not able to continue with our regular monthly meetings. However, we are now planning to hold monthly meetings over Zoom until May.
Meeting Summaries
26 January 2021: Alan Gray of Health All Round, an Edinburgh based Community Health Project, after giving a short summary of the objectives of the Project, spoke about the health advantages of activity and exercise more generally. He invited members of the Group to assess their own levels of activity/exercise and to identify in discussion their experiences, both successes and barriers. He also outlined the various online programmes operated by Heath All Round suggesting that members may wish to try some of these. The relevant links are
www.healthallround.org.uk (general activities of Health All Round)
https://www.facebook.com/WesterHailesHealthAgency/ (Posts of specific activities – mainly exercise classes and routines)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF_h4BjMxqtHCaXwlqWTBmQ/videos (A range of videos of exercise classes and routines)
Summaries of the 25 February and 25 March meetings are included on our Facebook Page (Bronchiectasis Edinburgh). Summaries of future meetings will also be included on that Page as well.
Future Meetings (all over Zoom)
15 April: This is an extra meeting which will include a presentation from Professor James Chalmers of NHS Tayside. This presentation is the same one he gave to the European Lung Federation bronchiectasis patient conference in late February. It deals will latest developments in bronchiectasis research. If interested to attend this meeting please e-mail the following: breathtakerszoom@gmail.com to request the joining details.
29 April An open discussion on vaccinations and vaccination passports.
20 May (Note – Changed date) Likely to be presentation of chest physiotherapy.
24 June (subject to be confirmed)
