Asthma facts and figures
Find resources including key documents and facts and figures on children and young people’s asthma care below. NRAD Asthma kills presentation
Find resources including key documents and facts and figures on children and young people’s asthma care below. NRAD Asthma kills presentation
The following documents set out our ambitions and approach to children and young people’s asthma care in the London region.
Find resources below providing date and information on asthma facts and figures in other countries. What can we learn from the Finland strategy? Finnish Asthma Programme: Systematic approach to asthma management
Children’s asthma services need to be commissioned in a seamless integrated fashion across the entire pathway from prevention and self-management to in hospital and out of hospital care. Incentive schemes can help improve quality within specific sections of the pathway. To provide feedback or examples of best practice, including local incentive schemes, please contact: england.cyptransformationldn@nhs.net. […]
Case studies describing improvement projects focused on managing asthma for children and young people are featured here. We are grateful to all the teams involved for sharing their work. To provide further case studies or examples of best practice, please contact our team on: england.cyptransformationldn@nhs.net. Islington (Whittington Health) Young people may benefit from self-management […]
All those coming into contact with children and young people (CYP) with asthma need to have the competence, knowledge, skills and confidence to care for them. The National Bundle of Care (NBC) for CYP with asthma has a section on training and competencies (National Capabilities Framework for professionals who care for CYP with asthma). Online tiered training courses relating […]
Some areas of London have developed clinical pathways of care to ensure seamless management of CYP with asthma across a wider area. These pathways incorporate community and primary care through to specialist tertiary care, including details of referral to different services. Excellent local examples of pathways of care include:
The future delivery of CYP asthma care will be through a more place-based approach, bringing together potential stakeholders to work for the benefit of the child or young person and their family. This page provides information to support the delivery of new models and pathways of care to improve asthma care for CYP in London. […]
The following are examples of business cases to help commissioners develop integrated asthma care. Robust evidence is required to develop a business case for any new service.
A network is a forum which brings together a community of health and social care professionals, commissioners, patients, parents/carers and others to work in partnership with the shared goal of improving care for children and young people (CYP) with asthma. Members are able to collaborate across organisations and patient pathways to identify gaps in care […]