Improving access to asthma care across Humber and North Yorkshire
Yorkshire . In addition to these three InHIP programmes , we also supported a community-led outreach project in Bradford .
All three InHIP projects have now been completed and an evaluation report has been submitted to NHS England and the Accelerated Access Collaborative for inclusion within the national InHIP report . The West Yorkshire InHIP project evaluation report scored particularly highly , predominantly for providing qualitative patient experience information . NHS England is going to use it as a best practice example for other sites that require further information / iteration .
The total number of patients benefitting across all three InHIP projects :
Involved Diagnosed Referred Treated
4443 1072 116 94
Improving access to asthma care across Humber and North Yorkshire
Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership initiated an asthma biologics project , which identifies patients with uncontrolled severe asthma in rural and coastal areas where referral rates were lower than expected . The project exposed barriers in the provision of good asthma care and overcame challenges to treat patients effectively , optimising patient care where possible in primary care and referring those with serious uncontrolled asthma to the Severe Asthma Centre in Hull . The project team enlisted the support of local media to notify patients that any contact they received was part of a targeted campaign , urging them to attend clinics if invited . This approach led to higher clinic attendance rates illustrating the need for health education alongside any outreach work .
In total , 22 clinics were scheduled in GP surgeries , increasing access to specialist asthma advice . Throughout
Total number of patients benefitting from our InHIP projects
1,072 patients diagnosed
116 patients referred
4,443 patients involved
94 patients treated
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