Rammya Mathew: New guidance is a golden opportunity to tangibly improve asthma care
It’s more than 10 years since the publication of the National Review of Asthma Deaths, which revealed that most deaths from asthma in the UK were preventable.1 In the years since, many of the problems identified in asthma care have persisted, and the annual death toll from asthma has continued to rise. One of the key risk factors for deaths from asthma is the overuse of reliever inhalers and the underuse of preventer inhalers. When undertaking asthma reviews it’s common to hear patients say that the short acting β2 …
