Quick update on our campaign. It sparked a lively debate in the House of Lords last week, which started with one peer having an asthma attack. You can read the debate here in full.
Continue reading National standards: campaign update
Since my last post there have been some exciting developments in our campaign to get national standards for asthma.
One of our closest supporters in Parliament is Howard Stoate. Howard manage...
Continue reading Asthma standards - more signatures required!
Gordon Brown's announcement that people with long-term medical conditions will no longer have to pay prescription charges is excellent news - and long overdue.
The announcement received widespread p...
Fed up with variable quality of care? Want to do something about it? Then help us make the case for national standards in asthma.
Asthma UK talks a lot about the importance of national standards for asthma - why is that?
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Continue reading Three months to get national standards for asthma (in England)
What would you tell the minister responsible for prescription drug charges if you were to meet her one day?
We want to know, as Asthma UK will be meeting Dawn Primarolo, the Minister of State for Public Health, after the summer break...
I haven’t worked directly with young people for 20 years, so I was a little nervous about volunteering for a Kick Asthma holiday. I was one of ten volunteers helping to make sure 18 young people with asthma had...
