Remote Asthma Management Service

Too many young people in the UK die from asthma. Almost all of these deaths can be prevented if young people and their families know about their illness and are enabled to take the treatment that prevents attacks. Currently, children and young people are reviewed routinely either in primary or secondary care, but this may not be at a time when they are unwell. The clinic system currently doesn’t allow the flexibility to see patients when needed. We wish to use clinical data to pick out those who need to be seen, rather than waiting until they are very unwell. It is only by accessing data from many different sources that we can get a whole picture of any individual patient and then tailor their care to what they need. Accessing Dataloch provides the opportunity to use high quality data that already exists to design and develop a tool that can eventually be used by the NHS that can be used to improve care for individual patients.