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World HMV Day 2026 celebrates the clinical teams that support HMV users
18th May 2026: The HMViP (Home Mechanical Ventilation in Partnership) Group is this year celebrating World HMV Day on 20th May by highlighting the roles of the clinical teams who care for HMV users through a campaign called #2minuteswiththeHMVteam.
Alison Armstrong, Chair of the group and Nurse Consultant in the North-East Assisted Ventilation Service, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comments:
“Our aim as a group is to raise awareness, share knowledge and improve education amongst clinicians and HMV users, their families and carers.
As part of this, we feel that it is important to make HMV users and their families more aware of what the skills of different professions brings to the care pathway of someone receiving home mechanical ventilation. We also hope that it would be helpful to understand what motivates the members of the clinical team that provides their care. So, we’ve asked members of the clinical multi-disciplinary team, from speech and languages therapies to specialist nurses, consultants to occupational health therapists to share what they love about their job, what the challenges are and even what their desert island luxury would be!
On 20th May, we’ll be sharing the two minute videos on our social media channels and through our website, https://hmvip.co.uk/world-hmv-day, and we hope that the HMV community as a whole will join us in celebrating the role which HMV plays in supporting quality of life by adding life to years.”
HMV can benefit patients with conditions that damage the lungs, such as COPD and those that restrict the movement of air in and out of the body, including obesity, curvature of the spine (also known as Kyphoscoliosis), and neuromuscular conditions such as Motor Neurone Disease and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The HMViP Group encourages those with these conditions, their families and carers, to visit the HMViP website (www.hmvip.co.uk) to find out more about HMV, how it works, and the benefits others have experienced as a result of their treatment.
The HMViP Group is made up of a multi-disciplinary team, representing HMV centres across the UK, with a wealth of knowledge and practical experience in this field. It includes respiratory consultants, clinical nurse specialists, specialist respiratory physiotherapists, and occupational health therapists, as well as HMV users and carers.
For further information, please contact:
Gill Gibbons
gillian@wychwoodcommunications.com
07795342804
About HMV
HMV (Home Mechanical Ventilation) provides a way of supporting a patient’s breathing outside of a hospital setting. The intention of the treatment is to improve quality of life, relieve symptoms, reduce risk of hospitalisation and improve survival rates.
HMV is delivered via a machine, attached to a hose, connected to a firm-fitting mask, covering the nose and/or mouth or via a tube in the neck (tracheostomy). Machines deliver a steady stream of air, either at set pressures or variable pressures, to deliver a pre-decided volume, or a combination of both.
About HMViP Group
Our mission is to create fair and equitable access to a care agenda led by patients. We shall champion evidence-based approaches for HMV to encourage adoption in centres not currently providing this service. Furthermore, we shall support and represent patients and their family carers with improved patient education, to empower patients to obtain the correct (and best) treatment.