Podcast – Ensuring optimal treatment for asthma management using the GINA approach
As part of the Supporting People with Asthma in the 21st Century project, hear from Deborah Leese and Noreen Grant on using the GINA approach to asthma management for ensuring optimal treatment for asthma patients.
Deborah Leese (Pharmacist) and Noreen Grant (GP) provide a simple overview of the GINA approach to managing asthma and how this can be effectively used, in collaboration with people with asthma, to:
- ensure ongoing effective asthma treatment,
- facilitate patient knowledge and agency of their asthma,
- address the underlying lung inflammation which causes asthma, and
- tackle SABA only/overuse.
Speakers
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Deborah Leese
Deborah qualified as a pharmacist in 2000 with a first-class degree. She has had a varied career starting in community pharmacy, moving on to regional and national training roles and then into primary care in 2009 as a clinical pharmacist for NHS Sheffield.
In 2016 Deborah qualified as a pharmacist independent prescriber and was appointed respiratory lead pharmacist for Sheffield CCG and now for South Yorkshire ICB (Sheffield) Deborah has led on many pieces of respiratory work including guideline and formulary development. She has also developed many initiatives for inhaler optimisation for the city as well as educational sessions. Deborah is also currently Co-Clinical Lead for Children and Young Peoples Asthma for South Yorkshire, Clinical Lead for SABA reduction in South Yorkshire, Chair of the South Yorkshire Sustainable Respiratory Group and a committee member for the South Yorkshire Respiratory Interest Group.
Deborah is Vice Chair of the PCRS Service Development Committee, a member of the Policy Forum and is a core member of the Asthma Right Care team. She has contributed to various PCRS documents including Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS consensus. She has a passion for respiratory care and is focussed at putting the patient at the centre of care. -
Noreen Grant
I am a GP with a specialist interest in respiratory medicine, based in South Birmingham. My passion for respiratory medicine began whilst working in Australia, and I returned to the UK to begin specialist training in respiratory in secondary care. I changed career track when I decided that primary care was where I wanted to be, and so I subsequently qualified as a GP. Since then, I have been able to develop my expertise in respiratory medicine by working in the South Doc Services respiratory diagnostic hub, covering seven PCNs in South Birmingham. I really enjoy the range of pathologies we encounter, which reflects the diversity of Birmingham’s population. Outside of work I’m a proud mum to two young boys, and love to cook whenever I can, particularly outdoors!
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