Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by Asthma UK Living in limbo, the scale of unmet need in difficult and severe asthma, published in 2019, which found that four out of five severe asthma patients are not referred to specialists for treatment.
The UK Severe Asthma Registry (UKSAR) has gone from having less than 2000 patients registered to over 8000 patients as a result of work on the asthma pathway. Severe asthma services will continue to participate in the NHS England and Improvement Accelerated Access Collaborative programme to deliver the best healthcare to severe asthma patients. The UKSAR is the world’s largest national severe asthma registry and provides novel insights across a range of research areas as well as enabling annual reporting on performance outcomes for severe asthma services.