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Asthma

Volume 477: debated on Thursday 19 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance he has issued to primary care trusts on the management of asthma. (210422)

The Department has issued an ‘exemplar’ on asthma management in children (“National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services: Asthma” 14 September 2004). This is part of the materials provided by the Department to support achievement of the National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services (the NSF) which was published in 2004. Copies of both publication are available in the Library.

While the ‘exemplar’ is not intended as guidance, it does illustrate one possible care pathway for a child with asthma as a way to illustrate the sort of aspects of asthma management, care and services that would enable local authority and primary healthcare trust partners in an area to meet the NSF standard on caring for the disabled child.

No similar exemplar exists for adults.