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High Quality and Low Carbon Asthma Care

A quality improvement toolkit for primary care. If you would like help with education and implementation support, please get in touch at contact@greenerpractice.com. High Quality and Low Carbon Asthma Care © 2022 by Greener Practice C.I.C. is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

About the toolkit

This toolkit is designed to help UK general practices improve asthma outcomes whilst also reducing carbon emissions. It contains step-by-step quality improvement activities. Resources include downloadable searches, educational videos, templates and patient information. Watch this video to learn more.

Toolkit Contents

  • Introduction

    Structure of toolkit, principles, tips for success and an approach to consultations

  • Education

    Update your clinical knowledge on high quality and low carbon asthma care.

  • Projects

    Step-by-step QI projects on asthma diagnosis, disease control, devices and their disposal.

  • Resources

    All the resources for the different projects in one place.

Feedback

We would love to hear what is working and not working in the toolkit and how we can improve it for practices. If you have tips for what has worked or not worked in this project please get in contact.

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Acknowledgements

This toolkit has been reviewed and approved by the NHS England inhaler working group. It was written by Dr Aarti Bansal (GP), Dr Sarah Wikeley (GP) and Dr Tamsin Ellis (GP). Thanks to Carol Stonham (Nurse Specialist), Ravijyot Saggu (Clinical Pharmacist) and Dr Katherine Hickman (GP) for review and development of the project.

We would like to thank the Health Foundation for helping to fund the toolkit and website, Primary Care IT for developing the IT resources and Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership for funding the educational videos. Many thanks to the numerous Greener Practice clinicians who have also reviewed the material.