Asthma: Coronavirus

(asked on 22nd February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to reports of severe asthma patients who were unaware of their diagnosis receiving a letter stating that they should shield, what steps they are taking to ensure that patients with severe asthma receive their diagnosis.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 4th March 2021

Patients added to the shielding list will be under the care of a clinician for their asthma and therefore aware of their diagnosis.

Patients with severe asthma were identified as being (clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) by two routes. An algorithm was used to identify patients who received high levels of certain asthma medication. Inpatients were also directly added to the CEV list by a clinician in either primary or secondary care following the shielding advice for those with severe respiratory conditions, which was published by the British Thoracic Society in April 2020.

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