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Respiratory medicine

Caring for people with asthma in primary care

02 December 2019
Clinical
02 December 2019
Volume 30 · Issue 12

Abstract

The British Thoracic Society/Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (BTS/SIGN) asthma guidelines were recently updated with the latest evidence. Sarah Beeken provides an overview of the key changes for practice nurses

In July this year, the British Thoracic Society/Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (BTS/SIGN) guidelines for the management of asthma were updated, in line with the latest evidence. These updates provide some new approaches to giving personalised care in order to help individuals to better manage their condition. The asthma review is key to good asthma care. This article explains how to gain a personalised understanding of the current control of the person's asthma, their risk of future attack, and how this will allow an appropriate medicine regime to be prescribed, and appropriate counselling and education given that is unique to the individual.

In July 2019, the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) updated their guidelines on the management of asthma to make approaches to care more personalised, with the aim of better outcomes for people with asthma (BTS/SIGN, 2019). These updates give health professionals involved in the care of people with asthma new approaches to provide personalised care and help better manage an individual's condition. This article will summarise these changes for practice nurses.

According to Asthma UK (2019a), there are 4.3 million adults and 1.1 million children currently receiving treatment for asthma. Asthma is the most common lung disease in the UK (British Lung Foundation, 2019) and costs the NHS around £1 billion per year (BTS/SIGN, 2019).

Every 10 seconds someone is having a potentially life-threatening asthma attack, and an average of three people each day die from an asthma attack in the UK (BTS/SIGN, 2019).

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