Asthma: Coronavirus

(asked on 16th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, until what date the recommendations in the NICE COVID-19 rapid guideline: severe asthma will remain in place.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd June 2020

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is unable to confirm a date on which the recommendations in the COVID-19 rapid guideline on severe asthma [NG166] will cease to be in place at this time.

COVID-19 rapid guidelines, and their individual recommendations, will be kept under review and may be considered for withdrawal:

- If the guideline or recommendations are no longer needed or become redundant/obsolete because service delivery has changed (e.g. normal services have resumed), or the recommendations are likely to have limited relevance for the service beyond the timeframe of the current crisis;

- If there are safety issues, for example, the recommendations may harm patients, service users or health and social care practitioners; and

- To remove duplication of recommendations if guideline content or certain recommendations within the COVID-19 suite are merged.

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