Mentions:
1: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) ; welcomes the work of Asthma + Lung UK Scotland to improve asthma care in Scotland and to support people - Speech Link
2: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) , advice and support for persons with an asthma diagnosis and their families.Gareth Brown from Asthma - Speech Link
3: Stewart, Alexander (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) uncontrolled asthma. - Speech Link
Make asthma inhalers free through the NHS
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Make asthma inhalers free in line with other medications such as contraceptives.
Found: Providing free inhalers will ensure that individuals with asthma, a chronic and sometimes life-threatening
Asked by: Jim Shannon (Democratic Unionist Party - Strangford)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department plans to issue to asthmatic people on projected high pollen levels this summer.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
At present, NHS England has no plans to issue guidance to asthmatic people on projected high pollen levels this summer. However, the National Health Service website contains advice on asthma, which includes advice on understanding and managing triggers, such as pollen. The NHS site also links to Asthma and Lung UK’s advice on asthma management, which contains more detailed information on managing triggers, and how best to reduce risk when pollen levels are high.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has new capabilities for monitoring real-time pollen levels for this year’s pollen season. This adds to the UKHSA’s Real-time Syndromic Surveillance, which includes the monitoring of presentations of asthma to the NHS. The UKHSA also provides weekly updates via publicly available surveillance bulletins, which are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/syndromic-surveillance-systems-and-analyses.
In addition to this work, the Met Office provides alerts and advice when pollen levels are high. These alerts provide valuable information on pollen levels over the next five days for asthmatics and hayfever sufferers, so they can appropriately modify their planned future activities, and ensure they use or have their medication with them.
Asked by: Lord Woolley of Woodford (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly that approximately half of London’s recorded childhood asthma hospitalisations between 2021 and 2022 were from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic groups.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department is aware of the findings of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly on childhood asthma hospitalisations in London. NHS London’s Children and Young People’s Asthma programme run a yearly #AskAboutAsthma campaign to raise the awareness of asthma across the whole system. The focus in 2022 was on health inequalities and asthma care for all, and to support the work around implementing Core20plus5 for children. This included raising awareness amongst asthma clinicians and commissioners to improve the care for children and young people from specific ethnic minority groups. As part of Core20plus5, NHS England has also worked with integrated care systems and their paediatric asthma networks to focus on these groups.
Mar. 29 2010
Source Page: Table showing a) count of finished admission episodes and b) deaths where asthma was the underlying cause, by age group, where the primary diagnosis was asthma by primary care trust (PCT) of residence (London), for the years 200/01 to 2008/09. 24 p.Found: Table showing a) count of finished admission episodes and b) deaths where asthma was the underlying cause
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Wentworth and Dearne)
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many people were rejected from joining the Armed Forces due to asthma in each year since 2010.
Answered by Andrew Murrison - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This information is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mentions:
1: Ewing, Annabelle (SNP - Cowdenbeath) asthma, surveyed by Asthma + Lung UK Scotland, said that they received all the elements of basic asthma - Speech Link
2: Gulhane, Sandesh (Con - Glasgow) Scots suffer from asthma. - Speech Link
3: Stewart, Alexander (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) and the asthma action plan. - Speech Link
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government which hospitals had the highest patient admissions for child asthma in 2022.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what is the monthly average for reported child hospital admissions for asthma in England.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.
Asked by: Lord Mann (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government which localities in England reported the highest pro rata child hospitalisations for asthma in 2022.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
A table is attached due to the size of the data involved. The information available on children admitted to hospital for asthma is shown in this table, with data for 2022 being provisional.
Data is not held by locality, but the number of admissions for children with asthma by hospital trust and by site, is provided in tab (i) within the table. The average number of monthly child admissions for asthma into English hospitals in 2022 is shown in tab (ii) within the table. Tab (iii) in the table shows the number of annual child hospital admissions for asthma in each of the past 20 years.