Children and Young People

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  1. Audit

    This section is intended for clinicians caring for children with asthma in a hospital or tertiary care setting. It outlines examples of best practice in the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of children and young people with asthma in an acute setting. (It will help you achieve standards 3, 4, 9, 19, 24, 32 and […]

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  2. Asthma control tests

    This section is intended for clinicians caring for children with asthma in a hospital or tertiary care setting. It outlines examples of best practice in the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of children and young people with asthma in an acute setting. An asthma control score helps to: Resources to support you The ‘Asthma and […]

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  3. Action plans

    This section is intended for clinicians caring for children with asthma in a hospital or tertiary care setting. It outlines examples of best practice in the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of children and young people with asthma in an acute setting. If a child has a personalised asthma action plan they are four times […]

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  4. Film

    This section is intended for clinicians caring for children with asthma in a hospital or tertiary care setting. It outlines examples of best practice in the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of children and young people with asthma in an acute setting.

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  5. Print version

    Download a printable version of this section below. This asthma toolkit aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people with the condition. The purpose of this toolkit is to ensure there is a more holistic and joined up approach to caring for young people with asthma.  Download a printable version of this section […]

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  6. Workforce

    Ideally future delivery of children’s services will be through a more place-based approach with a focus on multidisciplinary working.Transforming care across the system: Implementing integrated care for asthma in London; the resources, the barriers and the opportunities workshop All health professionals need to have the competence, knowledge, skills and the confidence to care and treat […]

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  7. Service specifications

    Children’s asthma services need to be commissioned in a seamless integrated fashion across the entire pathway from prevention and self-management to in hospital and out of hospital care. This section provides information, advice and resources to support those commissioning children’s asthma services. Ideally future service delivery will be through a more place based care approach.  […]

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  8. Specialised commissioning

    Children’s asthma services need to be commissioned in a seamless integrated fashion across the entire pathway from prevention and self-management to in hospital and out of hospital care. This section provides information, advice and resources to support those commissioning children’s asthma services. NHS England commissions severe and difficult-to-control asthma services from five highly specialist respiratory […]

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  9. Pathways

    Commissioning innovative whole pathways of care, including specialist outreach, and moving care closer to home to deliver all required services, may involve developing shared incentives that improve outcomes and costs across the pathway. Example pathways: Hillingdon hospital example pathway New asthma clinical pathway – Hounslow Pathway diagrams – Hounslow  Children and young people asthma pathway […]

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