History:

Fit to Breathe

Fit to Breathe was set up in January 2004 as a private Pulmonary Rehabilitation course to meet the needs of people with chronic breathing problems who are unable to access Pulmonary Rehabilitation through the NHS... [more]

Rickie Bishop MCSP SRP: Professional Profile

Bath Royal United
Bath Royal United Hospital
Rickie Bishop MCSP SRP

Rickie qualified in 1970 from Bath School of Physiotherapy and worked at the Royal United Hospital in Bath for two years. She then moved to Hastings and worked in paediatrics in Hastings and Bexhill. Her interest in breathing exercises and rehabilitation for asthma started in 1976 with children and continued from 1983 at Benenden Hospital in Kent with adults with chronic breathing problems.

Benenden Hospital, Kent UK
Benenden Hospital

Rickie set up and co-ordinated a multi-disciplinary residential Pulmonary Rehabilitation course at Benenden in 1998, which ran successfully until the end of 2003.