Asthma Right Care Update November 2021

Our Asthma Right Care social movement continues to grow with over 17 countries now involved.

Recent initiatives include:-

• Latin American Teach the Teacher programme in 8 countries.  Our IPCRG Spanish and Portuguese speaking master faculty is working online with 3-5 leaders recruited from 8 countries in the “Tier 1” master teacher programme.  The country master teachers will then create a Tier 2 programme in their country, recruiting and teaching a cohort of national teachers.  In Tier 3, they will teach frontline primary care.
• Five free teaching case studies created by our Asthma Right Care Delivery Team are now open access: these illustrate Asthma Right Care in different situations including management of moderate asthma, someone with a “chest infection”, transition between child and adolescent care, someone with asthma attending the Emergency Department and a case of difficult to manage asthma. There is a demonstration video and PowerPoint slides for each.
• Three initiatives with community pharmacists
  • Case study in collaboration with Grupo de Respiratorio en Atención primaria (GRAP), Sociedad Española de Farmacia Clinica, Familiar y Comunitaria (SEFAC), Local Spanish Colleges of Pharmacists: How Spanish pharmacists have improved their role in asthma management from supplying SABA without restriction to prescription-only dispensing,  led by Spanish pharmacist societies
  • Building on our webinars for community and hospital pharmacists in partnership with the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP)
  • E-learning for pharmacists in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana
• New video content – Fun short Silent Movie films for Emergency Departments in Spanish, English, French and Italian to make the case for action on over-reliance on SABA
• Two powerful short films – also without words - about childhood asthma from GRESP, our Portuguese group, showing the power of Asthma Right Care
• Asthma Right Care: what will you commit to? publication for nurses in English, Spanish and Portuguese
• Presentation Asthma Right Care: a global social movement to improve safety and care quality for the 300m+ people with asthma to International Quality Forum
• Presentation (abstract 206) Asthma Right Care Global movement: adopting new strategies to get a large scale change in asthma management  at North American Integrated Care forum (NACIC)
• Asthma Slide Rule & Question Cards in more languages
• A workshop on Tiny Habits run by Katherine Hickman for the Asthma Right Care Delivery Team. Here is a link to a video on Tiny Habits for respiratory health
• Asthma Right Image library that will launch in Q4 2021 to make it easy to show right care (who has asthma across the world, who delivers most care – primary care - and how to use the right inhalers in the right way).

Plans include

• Design charrettes in more countries to co-create and localise resources for the social movement
• An introductory online Research School for primary care in four Latin American countries exploring and analysing data collected on SABA use as part of the SABINA programme
• A pathway redesign workshop in South Africa to explore how to engage community pharmacists
• Implementation test of the Reliever Reliance Test by community pharmacists in North West London
• Validation of the Reliever Reliance Test in Spanish

If you are interested in being part of Asthma Right Care please get in touch, email businessmanager [at] ipcrg [dot] org