National Review of Asthma Deaths: Call for panel assessors
This is likely to be a landmark study and you can be part of it
The PCRS-UK believe that the learning from this project will help to guide improvements in the care of people with asthma and that recommendations can be made to help prevent deaths from asthma in the future
This audit, led by the Royal College of Physicians within a consortium of 13 organisations including PCRS-UK, will focus the attention of the NHS on the fact that people all ages and varying illness severity are still dying from asthma and that there is a real need to improve the lives of people with asthma
Examining primary care notes will be a key part of understanding the circumstances leading up to and surrounding a death from asthma – so we are very keen to ensure a large number of people from primary and community care take part as assessors
This is a great opportunity for personal development and will qualify for CME and CPD points and being part of a panel will provide opportunities for networking with other asthma interested health professionals in your part of the country.
Training will be provided. Most meetings will be held in the relevant regions (London, Bristol, Birmingham or Manchester, Newcastle, Belfast and Edinburgh) , and the time commitment is minimal, around 2 days of actual meetings within the 15 month period from the start of the data collection in 2012.
For further information on the project and other ways you can get involved, view our news item HERE or email us at info@pcrs-uk.org
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New – DH guidance for clinicians and NHS staff on delivering improved outcomes in COPD and asthma
Following publication in July 2011 of ‘An Outcomes Strategy for COPD and asthma in England’, the Department of Health has launched a further document - an ‘NHS Companion Document’ - to help clinicians and other NHS staff with implementing the strategy. While the Outcomes Strategy was a wide-ranging document covering public health and social care as well as the NHS, this document describes the 45 actions and interventions the NHS specifically can take to help achieve the outcomes relevant to the NHS which were set out in the Outcomes Strategy. There is also a succinct summary document and an Economic Impact Report.
It also brings in, for the first time, the Quality standard for COPD from NICE, which describes high quality management and treatment of diagnosed COPD in 13 succinct statements.
The BTS/SIGN asthma guideline has been accredited by NHS Evidence, so NICE now recognises this guideline as the authoritative asthma guideline for the UK.The asthma chapter in the NHS Companion Document is consistent with and reinforces best practice as set out in the BTS/SIGN guideline. For quick and easy guidance to ensure that your care of individual asthma patients is in line with best practice, click HERE.
- Click HERE for a short overview of the document contents and HERE for the full NHS Companion Document
- To see what a community nurse and a GP think about the NHS Companion document – click HERE
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