Tools to help use inhalers and more supporting resources for pharmacies
Tools to help use inhalers
Inhalers and the green agenda
London’s CYP asthma pharmacy group, a subgroup of the London Asthma Leadership and Implementation Group, have developed two leaflets on inhalers and the green agenda. Launched in November 2022, these detail what young asthma patients and their families can do to protect the environment and how professionals can inform themselves and advise their patients in relation to the environmental impact of inhalers:
- Patient leaflet for printing
- Patient leaflet for digital use
- Top tips for professionals in greener respiratory prescribing in A3 and A4
- Greener Respiratory Prescribing in Children & Young People – Supporting ICBs to safely introduce greener inhalers for CYP. (These slides have been produced to support the use of the Top Tips document and appropriate inhaler prescribing for CYP more widely)
- Communications toolkit for Inhalers and the Green Agenda
Dose counters for inhalers
Patients and families can find it difficult to tell if their inhaler is empty if it does not have a dose counter. This leaflet from Beat asthma provides some helpful tips.
Preventer inhaler chart
CHAH (Croydon Hospital at Home) asthma has developed this downloadable inhaler chart showing how long a preventer inhaler should last according to the prescribed dose.
The children, young people and families section of the London asthma toolkit also has information on inhalers.