Guidance for Clinical Directors - Completing Workforce Planning Templates - Oct 2020 Deadline by Transformation Partners in Health and Care

In this podcast, we look at the challenges facing practices in recruiting general practice nurses and strengthening the pipeline through mentoring, training and leadership. The discussion also explores the area of transitioning newly qualified nurses into general practice roles

In the latest in Healthy London Partnership's series on the power of general practice nursing in London, GPN Rachel Hodgkinson talks to HLP's Jonathan Sampson about the challenges on running successful newborn vaccinations during Covid-19 - from being unable to register births to scepticism in some areas to vaccines - and the dynamic solutions she and her peers have put in place to meet the challenges.

Oliver Anglin and Bipin Patel discuss how pharmacists are a vital element of the community care team looking after children and young people with asthma, what they can do to support the care of their young patients and the benefits of better integration of pharmacy with the wider healthcare system.

Ask the experts: Dr Oliver Anglin, Emily Guilmant-Farry and Rahul Chodhari

Find out what asthma actually is, what an asthma plan looks like and why they’re so important, what to expect from a hospital visit to see a consultant, why spacer size matters, tips on how to remember to take asthma medication, changes to the home environment that can improve CYP asthma, and the impact of school Covid-19 cleaning regimes on asthma in this Q&A session with an expert panel.

Learning from asthma deaths: GP Mark Levy

Mark Levy, expert witness at a number of coroners inquiries into childhood asthma deaths and chair of the 2014 National Review of Asthma Deaths, discusses what we have learned – or failed to learn – from these heart-breaking cases and how the system needs to change to reduce their occurrence in the future.

Air quality and asthma – what have we learned from Covid-19: Jonathan Grigg, Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and Environmental Medicine, Queen Mary University of London.

Jonathan Grigg discusses what we have learned about air quality and its impact on asthma, particularly as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic – and how we can put this knowledge to work to reduce CYP asthma in the future.

Learning from the Tower Hamlets asthma programme: Rita Araujo, transformation manager & Tori Hadaway, community children specialist asthma

Find out how the Tower Hamlets asthma team took a whole systems approach to address children and young people’s asthma – and how they improved outcomes and reduce admissions as a result.

Asthma Friendly School – a how to guide: Karen Rodesano, asthma friendly school nurse - ‎Whittington Health

Find out what it takes to be an Asthma Friendly School with AFS nurse and winner of the Nursing Times Award 2019 Karen Rodesano. This podcast includes approaches to use with both primary and secondary schools and how to engage with the wider community.

Tertiary referrals and asthma systems: Dr Louise Fleming, honorary consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital.

Louise Fleming discusses the work of tertiary centres, including the teams involving in diagnosing and caring for children with difficult to treat asthma, how they fit with local asthma networks and the benefits of these networks, alongside the challenges associated with Covid-19.