NHS nurses create device to save CF sufferers' lives

A YOUNG cystic fibrosis patient demonstrates an ingenious device created by an inspired team of nurses to help save lung patients' lives as well as the environment and taxpayers' cash.

- Chris Riches

Three-year-old Ivan Wright has fun blowing into the HydroBubble, which helps clear his airways and exercises his lungs.

The eco-friendly device was created to help kids with long-term lung conditions do their Positive Expiratory Pressure physio.

This usually involves patients blowing through tubing into a bottle of sterile water, both of which would be binned after a single use.

This not only increases pressure on the environment but also adds to costs for the NHS.

PEP is also hard work for children. But that has changed thanks to CF nurses Yasmin Hussaini, Jane White and Naomi Parsons from the South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.