Asthma: Birmingham Perry Barr
(asked on 4th July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of (a) all people with and (b) children with asthma have a personalised asthma action plan in Birmingham Perry Barr constituency.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the British Thoracic Society (BTS), and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) published the guideline Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management in November 2024, which covers diagnosing, monitoring, and managing asthma in adults, young people, and children. The guideline emphasises the importance of personalised asthma action plans (PAAPs) for effective asthma management.
The Department and NHS England welcome the updated guideline and have been engaging with health system partners to support its implementation across the country, including the use of PAAPs.
NHS England’s National bundle of care for children and young people with asthma aims to support integrated care systems to deliver high quality asthma care and has resources available to support the use of PAAPs in children and young people.
NHS England has also been working jointly with the Health Innovation Networks to form a national respiratory partnership to improve asthma outcomes, including through implementation of the collaborative NICE, BTS, and SIGN asthma guideline.
The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) incentivises use of PAAPs through indicator AST007, which measures the percentage of patients with asthma on the register, who have had an asthma review in the preceding 12 months that includes an assessment of asthma control, a recording of the number of exacerbations, an assessment of inhaler technique, and a written personalised action plan. The latest QOF data shows that for England, the percentage of asthma patients on the register receiving this care has increased from 52.5% in 2021/22 to 64.6% in 2023/24.
According to the QOF data for the end of 2023/24, general practices in the Perry Barr constituency had 5,437 patients on the asthma register. Of these, 4,253 had received an asthma review in the previous 12 months, and 3,361, or 61.8% of patients on the register, had a written personalised asthma plan. Data for this indicator is not broken down by age, and determining these numbers for children would require contacting individual general practices, as they are the data controllers for this patient information.
Further information on the QOF asthma indicators are available on pages 41 to 46 of NHS England’s 2025/26 QOF guidance, which is available at the following link: