World HMV Day
20th May 2026
The campaign this year is called #2minuteswiththeHMVteam so please help us to celebrate World HMV Day by following our social media and sharing our posts with your networks.
Help us by following our social media and sharing our posts with your networks.
What is World HMV Day?
We launched World HMV Day in 2023 and our aim is to raise awareness, share knowledge, improve education amongst clinicians and HMV users, and, most importantly, to support and represent HMV patients, as well as their families and carers.
World HMV Day 2026 #2minuteswiththeHMVteam
2 minutes with Chun Shu from Singapore
2 minutes with Hilary from Newcastle
2 minutes with Iain from Frimley
2 minutes with Jenny from Newcastle
2 minutes with Katy from Bristol
2 minutes with Katy from Newcastle
2 minutes with Lisa from the North East of England
2 minutes with Lydia from Singapore
2 minutes with Natalie from Newcastle
2 minutes with Ravi from Singapore
2 minutes with Raichael from Newcastle
2 minutes with Sun Tao from Singapore
2 minutes with Alison based in Newcastle
2 minutes with Verity based in Lancashire and South Cumbria
World HMV Day 2026: More from the HMV team
Dianne Whalley – find out a bit more about Dianne here
Steph Grant – find out a bit more about Steph here
Ellen Groves- find out a bit more about Ellen here
Jenn Mair-Birch – find out a bit more about Jenn here
Kerrie Randall – find out a bit more about Kerrie here
World HMV Day 2026
The aim of World HMV Day is to raise awareness, share knowledge, improve education amongst clinicians and HMV users, and, most importantly, to support and represent HMV patients, as well as their families and carers. For our 2026 #2minuteswiththeHMVteam campaign, we are inviting all who treat and support HMV patients share their role on social media by posting your stories. We’ve provided some questions below that we’d love to hear the answers to.
We believe 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!
Below we have shared videos and written contributions from clinical team members and we’ll also be sharing these on our social media channels throughout the day.
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.
By taking part in World HMV Day, you’ll be helping us to raise awareness of the important and positive impact that the HMV MDT can have on people’s lives.
We’d like to hear from:
- Specialist nurses
- Physiotherapists
- Medical consultants
– Respiratory
– Critical care
– Neurology
– ENT
– Palliative care - Physiologists
- Dietitians
- Speech and language therapists
- Occupational therapists
- Community teams
- Healthcare assistants
- Technicians
Steps to creating your #2minuteswiththeHMVteam video: – Download the PDF Guidelines for World HMV Day 2026 here.
The Home Mechanical Ventilation in Partnership would like you, as someone who treats and supports HMV patients, to record a short clip (max of two minutes) on your phone, and we’d like you to tell us:
- What is your name and where do you work
- What is your professional background
- How long have you worked with HMV users?
- How did you come to specialise/work in this area?
- What is your role in supporting HMV users and in what way can you help them?
- What do you enjoy most about your job?
- What is the worst part of your job?
- What are the biggest challenges you face?
- Why should other healthcare professionals consider a career specialising in HMV?
- What do you know now that you wish you’d known 10 years ago?
- What is your ‘top tip’?
- What would be your desert island luxury?
We’d love to hear from you with either your written answers and/or short film clips, ideally by 1st May so we can include these on our website https://hmvip.co.uk/world-hmv-day.
To share your answers and clips:
The Home Mechanical Ventilation in Partnership would like you, as a member of the MDT team supporting HMV patients, to share your answers to as many of the questions above as possible (but at least the first five questions) either as written responses, or to record a short, two-minute clip on your phone to reflect #2minuteswiththeHMVteam
The easiest way we have found to share your clip is via WhatsApp (07795 342804) or you can share your written answers with gillian@wychwoodcommunications.com. Gill is the secretariat for HMViP and will be collating all the clips and written answers which we receive.
We’d also ask you to share your clips on your own social media channels – Twitter, Facebook, etc. using the hashtags #WorldHMVDay, #2minuteswiththeHMVteam and #Addinglifetoyears.
Also if you are using Twitter, please tag @HMViPGroup and consider joining our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1354156945440480/.
To download our logo, please click here. Please share this and our hashtags: #WorldHMVDay,#2minuteswiththeHMVteam and #addinglifetoyears.
To follow us on Twitter, please go to @HMViPGroup; visit us on LinkedIn here or join our Home Mechanical Ventilation Facebook Group
Why is World HMV Day on 20th May?
World HMV Day and the HMViP website are dedicated to the memory of Ronnie Ward, who was a participant in the HOT-HMV trial [3].
Ronnie, a former naval serviceman, was diagnosed with COPD in 2014. Using HMV reduced his risk of being hospitalised and enabled him to enjoy several additional years at home in Sussex with his family.
Ronnie’s wife, Julie, said: “I can’t stress strongly enough what it meant for us as a family and for Ronnie to have this additional time.”
Julie continued:
“Without HMV I am convinced we would not have had those extra years of living a relatively normal life. Before starting HMV, Ronnie was admitted to hospital every few weeks but once he started on the machine, he didn’t have any hospital admissions and his care was managed at home. I can’t stress strongly enough what it meant for us as a family, and for Ronnie, to have this additional time.
“There wasn’t a lot of support for family carers at the time that Ronnie was using the device, so it was quite alarming at the beginning. Even though I am a nursery nurse, I wasn’t confident that I was giving Ronnie the right support.
“If the HMVIP website had been available eight years ago, it would have made my life a lot less stressful! I am therefore delighted to support the work of the group and to honour Ronnie’s memory by sharing my experience with other family carers.”
To listen to Julie’s and Ronnie’s story, click on the link below:
https://hmvip.co.uk/carer-story-julie
References:
[1] https://thorax.bmj.com/content/78/5/523 Murphy et al, Cost-effectiveness of home non-invasive ventilation in patients with persistent hypercapnia after an acute exacerbation of COPD in the UK)
[2] https://hmvip.co.uk/research-and-evidence
[3] https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/52/suppl_62/PA1679