Climate change affects us all and patients will be impacted by it more than they realise. What is our role in mitigating it, educating patients and how can we become ‘greener’? This session will discuss the climate and health challenges we face, including the levers, policy drivers and support resources for a Greener NHS. It will outline specifically how health professionals can make their respiratory care and prescribing more sustainable to improve patient and planetary health and in line with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society competence framework for all prescribers

This session has been organised and funded by Chiesi ltd. This session contains promotional content. For UK Healthcare Professionals Only.

What does inequality have to do with asthma? Everything. This session will focus on the impact of inequalities on children and families living with asthma. We will focus on the bigger picture - how we are still fighting a battle against inequality, how poverty is pervasive and the nitty gritty of how the nuances impact asthma specifically. This interactive session will then move on to focus on what we can do as health and social care professionals in our own daily practice to help turn the tide on this stark issue.

In November 2024 new guidance joint for the diagnosis and management of asthma in adults and children was released from British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN). This session will explain the diagnostic recommendations and changes to asthma management.