Which area of Notts has the most asthma sufferers?

Parts of Notts have a big breathing problem - with some of the highest rates of asthma out of anywhere in the whole country.
Figures from NHS Digital reveal that around 6.9 per cent of people registered to GPs in the Nottingham North and East clinical commissioning group (CCG) area suffer from asthma.
It's one of the highest rates in England - across the country, closer to 5.9 per cent of people are dealing with the lung condition.
The number of people dealing with asthma in Nottingham North and East has gone up by around 100 sufferers, with 10,319 people in the area now with the condition.....

Read more here: nottinghampost.com

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NICE backs drug over inhalers as step-up treatment for poorly controlled asthma

Asthma patients should in future be prescribed a leukotriene receptor antagonist as an intermediate step-up between a preventer inhaler and a combination inhaler, if their condition is poorly controlled.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has issued draft guidelines that recommend a major change in current practice for treating asthma patients that it claims could save millions of pounds.....

Read more here: nursingtimes.net

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RAD: Reactive Airways Disease or Really Asthma Disease?

The Problem
A resident presenting on rounds introduces her patient as “a 15-month-old with RAD. He’s had 2 days of wheezing, and we started albuterol and steroids.” A presentation like this is frequently heard on pediatric units despite the vagueness of the term “reactive airways disease,” commonly referred to as “RAD.” The term is often used as a substitute for asthma in young children on asthma medications when pediatricians are reticent to use the “A word.” Yet RAD has no accepted definition and does not add any specificity to the medical vocabulary. The reluctance to use the term “asthma” in a patient in whom asthma medications are being administered, no matter the age, is perplexing. In a field whose terminology is extensive enough to constitute its own language, it is surprising that we have allowed such a term to slip into the medical lexicon.....

Read more here: pediatrics.aappublications.org