• The e-learning for health tier 1 training is suitable for professionals working in education and is aligned to the National Bundle of Care for Children and Young People with Asthma. To be accredited as an Asthma Friendly School, 85% of school staff need to have undertaken this training or similar.  
• These slides, developed by asthma nurse specialist Gina Eyles of OneNorwich Practices, can be used to support asthma training in schools.
• The Supporting Children’s Health programme, from Education for Health and aimed at non-healthcare professionals who look after children – including teachers, non-teaching staff, asthma champions and others – may be useful for schools looking to become accredited as an Asthma Friendly School. This free online resource is a public access site with content developed by expert health professionals in consultation with teachers, sports coaches and children’s activity leaders. This poster describes the course.

Other resources

• What to do in an asthma attack – poster
• Additional advice can be found on the Asthma + Lung UK website
• Poster on viral wheeze and asthma 1
• Poster on viral wheeze and asthma 2
• What asthma sounds like

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.

All health professionals need to have the competence, knowledge, skills and confidence to care and treat children and young people with respiratory disease.

Our workforce team who may be able to assist

Sample job descriptions

Asthma clinical nurse specialist – Band 7 – Guys and St Thomas’s

Asthma deputy clinical nurse specialist – Band 6 – Guys and St Thomas’s 

Healthcare scientist advanced specialist including sleep – Guys and St Thomas’s

Healthcare scientist specialist – Band 6 – Guys and St Thomas’s

See the commissioners and schools section for additional community based job descriptions.

Please find free online training courses here:

• free on line education which is available here, made possible thanks to The George Coller Memorial Fund
• free  eLearning module for non-specialists
• Education for health ‘Difficult asthma’ module-free online eLearning for health-asthma

For recognised diploma level training – Education for health

Please find these example Asthma teaching summary slides to help run education programs for your workforce, as well as the Asthma education projects patient scenarios. We thank the Royal Free for developing these resources.

Pan-London Asthma Nurses Meeting Slides

Childhood Obesity

Covid19 at the Whittington

Preschool Wheeze

Promoting Flu

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 children and young people with respiratory disease.

Therefore, commissioners and providers, and Health Education England need to work together to understand the competency, capability and capacity of the workforce and to plan for future workforce demands.

The appropriate numbers of training placements and educational packages for future needs must ensure that there will be enough staff with the appropriate skills to care to ensure a sustainable change programme.  Education, service delivery and improvement go hand in hand.  This involves undertaking training needs analysis to ensure training meets population requirements and that education commissioned is appropriate.

  We have a workforce team that may be able to assist you. 

Please find free online training courses here:

• free on line education which is available here, made possible thanks to The George Coller Memorial Fund
• free  eLearning module for non-specialists
• Education for health ‘Difficult asthma’ module-free online eLearning for health-asthma

For recognised diploma level training – Education for health

Sample job descriptions

Asthma Lead nurse Band 7 – Hounslow CCG 

Asthma Clinical Nurse specialist Band 6 – Guys and St Thomas’s

Hounslow CCG Asthma support nurse Band 5 – Hounslow CCGs

See hospital care and schools section for additional job descriptions

Training Event resources

  Transforming care across the system: Implementing integrated care for asthma in London; the resources, the barriers and the opportunities workshop

More information to support workforce development for pharmacists in London

Pharmacists play a key role in providing quality healthcare particularly in the area of medicines optimisation. Development of a pharmacy workforce that is fit for the future will be will be key in supporting the implementation of the standards.

Please find useful workforce related guidance and free online training courses here:

• free on line education which is available here, made possible thanks to The George Coller Memorial Fund
• free eLearning module for non-specialists
• Education for health ‘Difficult asthma’ module-free online eLearning for health-asthma

For recognised diploma level training – education for health

Guidance

  Health Education England (2015) London community pharmacy workforce executive summary

  The community pharmacy offer for improving the publics health – Public Health England and Local Government Association