Asthma Clinic
Asthma is an ongoing disease of the airways characterised by cough, wheeze, shortage of breath or chest tightness. With treatment someone with asthma should be able to carry out activities as comfortably as those who do not have asthma.
Our Asthma specialist Practice Nurses offer an asthma management review annually around the birthday month. There is no specific day for this, which allows patients to make their appointment for a time they find convenient.
Asthma reviews usually take around 20 minutes, so please remember to tell the receptionist the type of appointment you wish to book when you phone to make your appointment.
This appointment affords an opportunity for both nurse and patient to discuss the patient’s personal asthma situation and treatment plan.
At the review the Practice Nurse will check your symptoms, peak flow reading, inhaler requirements, and your technique in taking your inhaled drugs (so do remember to bring along all the inhalers and spacers you currently use to your appointment!). You may also wish to discuss any asthma-related concerns you have at this time.
In addition, the Practice Nurses positively encourage patients to arrange an appointment should they have any concerns about their asthma at other times of the year, and after any emergency hospital visits. We hope however that these will be very few.
With asthma under control, the ideal is for it to fit in with your life and not your life to fit around your asthma.
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