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.
‘Following on from the NHS next-stage review, the Department of Health is developing the COPD clinical strategy with NICE. The COPD programme board is considering including a chapter on asthma in the clinical strategy. We will meet Asthma UK soon to talk about what can be done on asthma in the COPD strategy. My noble friend Lord Darzi’s report High Quality Care for All recommended the setting-up of a national quality board, the responsibilities of which would include deciding priorities for new work in the future on specific clinical conditions. We expect to consider the case for an asthma strategy over other candidates.’
Basically, that means Government will consider addressing asthma management in a new strategy they are preparing for another respiratory condition, COPD, and they have now pledged to consider the case for wider piece of work to improve asthma standards.
Let’s keep the pressure up on Health Minister Ann Keen MP, who will make the decision sometime before Christmas - keep those letters going!
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