Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to develop a national comprehensive severe asthma guideline to ensure that people with severe asthma are identified and put on the right treatments.

Through NHS England and NHS Improvement specialised commissioning, a comprehensive specification for managing difficult and severe asthma is available. This has been refreshed recently and is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/specialised-respiratory-services-adult-severe-asthma.pdf.

Those with severe asthma require systematic assessment and specialist care in tertiary respiratory centres, as there is no standard diagnostic test for severe asthma.