Elaine Cockayne, Practice Nurse, Nottingham
“I found your lectures to be so inspirational and informative and gained enormously from the lecture and could listen to more of the same. They are so relevant and hit the spot for me.”
Jane Inman, Practice Nurse, Bradford
“Well I don't want to sound boring but you yet again delivered another really inspirational course today, but i wouldn't expect anything less. You really inspire us to go out and practice what you preach and I always come away feeling I can take on the world promoting excellent asthma care, but more importantly, that I am delivering good asthma care at the moment.”
Dr U Shahid
“Your lecture was great and I feel a lot more confident. You are a teacher who knows how to conduct the process of teaching.”
Shirley Revell, Practice Nurse, Nottingham
“Firstly, thank you for the down to earth and practical session you delivered last Tuesday. You are lively and passionate and would instill interest in COPD in any audience. You have revived mine and I got some great tips.”
Tricia Evans, HCA
“Just to let you know I really enjoyed your course yesterday. Very interesting. Need to get our fingers out here and change a few things.”
Allyson Wiseman, Practice Nurse, Bradford
“Thank you for a fab update and lecture yesterday. Could have listened to you all day. It's great listening to good speakers. I have so appreciated your excellent teaching sessions - and feel so much more empowered.”
Liz Andrews, Practice Nurse, Newark
“Firstly thanks for an informative study session. Your enthusiam is quite contagious, and I have made a list of points we need to look at and hopefully change for the better.”
GP, Lincoln
“Thank you, we have been so impressed with yesterday, and spent today redoing our protocols and preparing to ensure that everyone is doing the same thing. Quite worrying to think i've trained as a doctor, done respiratory hospital jobs, been a GP....& yet never understood spirometry as well as yesterday - so thank you.”
Jenny Brosnan, Practice Nurse, Bradford
“I would like to take this opportunity of saying how much my 2 colleagues and I, enjoyed the first 2 days of your asthma course. Your presentation skills are brilliant, and I can assure you there was no bored gazing out of the window by anyone in the room.”
Hazel Carsley, GP, Calderdale CCG
“Sophie Toor is a very enthusiastic and effective communicator. Her passion for improving the clinical management of children with Asthma is clearly evident throughout her work. Sophie is very knowledgeable and yet flexible in her approach and has led the successful delivery of training in childhood asthma, to our Gp practices, within Calderdale, September to March 2014. The project she developed and delivered, evaluated well, and we hope to see positive outcomes in the future in Calderdale, as we focus on our young population with respiratory conditions.”
Amanda J Rees, ANP
“Thank-you Sophie for the delivery of an excellent two day programme and practical, pertaining to the ARTP/BTS Full Certificate in Spirometry. 'Respiratory Matters' reflects contemporary teaching methods with enthusiasm, addressing learning needs to obtain individual learning outcomes in accordance with up to date evidence based guidelines. The atmosphere is relaxed, groups appropriately sized, course value for money and overall a most positive experience.”
Angela Barrow, Advanced Nurse Practitioner Partner, Caritas Group Practice
“Sophie Toor worked with me on my COPD case finding project in Calderdale. Sophie undertook consultation work providing training and support to the participating practices and was a key member of the project team. Sophie was very enthusiastic and committed to the project; demonstrating extensive knowledge. Sophie not only provided support to the clinical teams but also played an important role in the administration of the project. Throughout the project Sophie was accessible and always happy to be of assistance."
Hazel Carsley, Clinical Commissioning Executive
"Sophie Toor is a very enthusiastic and effective communicator. Her passion for improving the clinical management of children with Asthma is clearly evident throughout her work. Sophie is very knowledgeable and yet flexible in her approach and has led the successful delivery of training in childhood asthma, to our Gp practices, within Calderdale, September to March 2014. The project she developed and delivered evaluated well, and we hope to see positive outcomes in the future in Calderdale, as we focus on our young population with respiratory conditions."
Nicola Greaves, Project Manager Asthma, British Lung Foundation
“I work for a respiratory charity and I met with Sophie to discuss the start-up of my asthma project. Sophie’s knowledge of respiratory is excellent, and because I am a non-medic, she helped to explain asthma management in an easy to understand way which gave me the confidence to initiate the project. Sophie is a fantastic source of help whenever I have needed advice on my project – thank you Sophie"
Omar Patel, Clinical Director, Interface Clinical Services
“At Interface Clinical Services we are committed to delivering outcomes for patients and the NHS through our Clinical Pharmacist Team. The training support that our pharmacists received from Sophie Toor and Respiratory Matters was excellent, and has undoubtedly enhanced our ability to improve outcomes for patients with respiratory conditions.”
Sonja Buckle, Project Lead Yorkshire and Humber asthma Impact Project
“I worked with Sophie for around 18 months on a regional asthma project, jointly funded by NHS Yorkshire and Humber and Asthma UK. As clinical lead for the project Sophie was tasked with educating and supporting project participants, developing tools and guidance for use within the project , such as a system one clinical recording template for asthma reviews and steering the clinical aspects of the project as a whole. Sophie was professional, competent and knowledgeable, I was able to feel confident in her ability to deliver on all outcomes. she supported professionals of various disciplines and feedback from those she worked most closely with praised her approachable, friendly and capable manner”