Respiratory Illness in Childhood Background documents

Background information

• SIGN 141 • British guideline on the management of asthma 2014 (PDF)  –  Contains the full version of the revised (2014) national guideline on asthma.
• Details of the Buckinghamshire COPD and Asthma Project (PDF) This gives the web address for the wide range of useful materials for practice asthma care on the website of this project, led by Catherine Tutt and Marilyn Plummer
• Buckinghamshire Pathways and Leaflets (PDF)  ; Buckinghamshire Asthma guideline in adults and children – abbreviated – June 2014 (PDF);  Buckinghamshire Asthma – Inhaled Treatment Algorithm – Adults Apr14 (PDF) – Contains the recently produced Buckinghamshire Pathways for acute bronchiolitis, childhood wheeze and asthma, together with recent Buckinghamshire asthma prescribing guidelines for adults and children.
• Commissioning Asthma services – Good Practice Guide (PDF) – This contains a 2013 Department of Health document on considerations for commissioning good asthma services for children, highlighting important issues in best practice for asthma management.
• NICE Quality Standard for Asthma (PDF) – This defines the most important features for providing high quality asthma care.
• Paediatric Normal Values (PDF) – Details of normal values for heart rate , respiratory rate and peak flow rates for children.
• NRAD – Why Asthma still kills summary and report (PDF) – This contains the recent Royal College of Physicians report on the National Review of Asthma Deaths – both the full document and the executive summary.
• Patient Information and Action Plans (PDF) – This contains a selection of personal asthma action plans for possible use in practice
• Scientific papers from journals; Bush_A_Diagnosis-of-asthma-in-children (PDF) – This contains journal articles on asthma review and on diagnosis and management of wheezing in under 5’s.
• Primary Care Respiratory Society UK Materials (PDF) – This contains a selection of the PCRS-UK information sheets relevant to child asthma care and a flyer for applying for membership of PCRS UK.
• Guidance on use of emergency inhalers in schools (PDF) – This contains recently published government guidance on the provision of inhalers for emergency use in schools.
• Education for Health Asthma Courses (PDF) – Details of courses
• PUFFELL Toolkit (PDF)