THE National Asthma Council Australia today launched a tailored education package Improving Childhood Asthma Management in Inner West Melbourne (Primary Health Care), to tackle the burden of asthma in Melbourne's inner west.
The online clinical education package has been developed specifically for GPs, practice nurses, pharmacists and allied health providers based in the inner western suburbs, an area that ranks highest in the state for emergency department presentations for asthma and wheeze in paediatric and adolescent patients.
A complementary package called Childhood Asthma Guide for Inner West Melbourne (Schools and Sports Clubs), has also been developed.
Narelle Williamson, Senior Clinical Consultant at the National Asthma Council, said best-practice asthma care should be a health priority for all primary healthcare professionals in Melbourne's inner west.
"For every age group in the zero to 19-year age range, children and adolescents from the inner west present to hospitals for asthma and wheeze at higher rates than the Victorian metropolitan average.
"The education package will help to address the variation in clinical knowledge, interest and capacity to deliver quality asthma care among GPs, pharmacists, maternal child health nurses and education providers in the inner west," she explained.
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