With the publication of a new Asthma UK report about how the use of data and technology can shape and transform the management of asthma in primary care, a wider discussion has now been prompted about how the same principles and recommendations within the report could shape chronic disease management in general practice overall. Dr Minal Bakhai and Dr Andy Whittamore have returned to the podcast to break down the specifics of the report, to share their experiences of implementing some of the recommendations, to discuss how we can better use data and tech to support innovation, how the improvement measures employed now could serve as a springboard for further success and the instant and long term impact on patients with asthma.
Introduction (35 secs)
Why has the report been published? (1 min 7 secs)
The current picture of asthma management in the UK and some stats (1 min 22 secs)
What has Asthma UK done so far? (3 mins 6 secs)
Asthma as a gateway condition for trial of tech in chronic disease management (3 mins 58 secs)
Has Covid been a contributing factor? (4 mins 14 secs)
Minal’s view; does asthma hold the key for successful implementation of tech in managing long term conditions? (5 mins 27 secs)
Total digital triage (6 mins 59 secs)
Digital First Primary Care accelerators and the work towards integrated care pathways (8 mins 11 secs)
The Portsdown experience (9 mins 32 secs)
Employing better analytics; what data skills are required? Which data samples should we be focused on? Who is responsible? (10 mins 58 secs)
Other improvement measures that Andy and Portsdown have employed (12 mins 30 secs)
The results of the changes at Portsdown (14 mins 36 secs)
The role of PCNs (15 mins 22 secs)
Minal’s view on the potential for influence and outcomes at PCN level (16 mins 37 secs)
A permanent change in the future of general practice? (18 mins 14 secs)
Resources, guidance, capacity support, accelerated procurement pathways and training – all available from Digital First Primary Care (19 mins 40 secs)
Accessing the report and support from Asthma UK (22 mins 48 secs)
Here is the link to the report
Asthma UK: https://www.asthma.org.uk/
Digital First Primary Care home page: https://www.england.nhs.uk/gp/digital-first-primary-care/