Asthma model of care

The Asthma Working Party is a collaboration between the Respiratory and the Child and Youth Health Networks and looks at asthma in both children and adults.

The model of care builds on existing national and state policy in this area, including the WA Chronic Respiratory Disease Clinical Services Improvement Framework (CSIF) 2005.

Five key areas have been identified to progress the implementation of CSIF and improve asthma services in Western Australia.

• Asthma child and adolescent guidelines
• Asthma adult guidelines
• Workforce education
• Consumer education
• Equipment, devices and technology

Links of interest:

• Asthma Management Handbook 2006 from the National Asthma Council Australia
• National Service Improvement Framework for Asthma from the national Department of Health and Ageing
• Global initiative for asthma

Working party members:

Name	Area
Clinical Assoc Prof Peter Kendall (co-chair)	Clinical Lead, Head of Department, Respiratory Medicine, Fremantle Hospital
Professor Lou Landau (co-chair)	Chair, Postgraduate Medical Council of WA, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow, University of Western Australia (UWA), A/Director, Clinical Child Health Research Network, Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH)
Dr Helen Bell	Respiratory Physician, North Metropolitan Area Health Service
Dr Rhonda Clifford	Pharmacist / Senior Lecturer, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, UWA
Dr Maree Creighton	Hospital Liaison GP, PMH
Samantha Dowling	Senior Policy Officer, WA GP Network
Rachael Dunn	Asthma Liaison Nurse, PMH
Kevin Gain	Chief Pulmonary Physiologist, Royal Perth Hospital (RPH)
Piper Marsh	Health Services Manager, The Asthma Foundation of WA
Sharon McBride	Senior Portfolio and Policy Officer (Schools and Youth), Child and Adolescent Community Health Division
Ailsa Mylotte	Clinical Nurse Consultant, Respiratory Medicine, South Metropolitan Area Health Service
Dr Richard Nolan	Consultant Immunologist, Pathwest / Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Leanne Ross	Respiratory Nurse Educator, Geraldton Hospital
Dr Andre Schultz	Paediatrician / Director of Clinical Training, PMH
Dr Quentin Summers	Respiratory Physician, RPH
Carol Watson	Assistant Superintendent Physiotherapy, RPH
Dr David Whyatt	Project Officer, Asthma Intervention and Education Study, UWA
Dr Alan Wright	General Practitioner

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