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REAL HEALTH EMIS tools for asthma: a quality improvement in Newham CCG

REAL-HEALTH Respiratory

REAL HEALTH aims to improve identification of patients who are at higher risk of hospital admission due to their asthma.

Objectives
1)To provide practices with EMIS IT tools to support the identification of patients with high risk asthma based on prescribing records.

2) To optimise asthma management and prescribing with regular structured asthma reviews for those at most risk of hospital admission. 
1.I am...
2.Since March 2020, have you heard about REAL HEALTH quality improvement activity? Please select all that apply.
3.Since March 2020, when opening patients' medical record, how often did you notice the SABA overuse alert pop-up?
4.Which, if any, of these activities did you do when you noticed the pop-up SABA alert? (Select all that apply.)
5.Since October 2020, has your practice used the asthma prescribing tool (EMIS tool 2 - back office) to identify patients overusing SABA at risk of hospital admission?
6.Have you taken part in any educational events about REAL HEALTH - asthma?
7.Do you feel this quality improvement intervention has helped your practice to identify patients at high risk of hospital admission with asthma?
8.User experience - Do you have any suggestions to improve the EMIS tools,  or our educational events about REAL HEALTH quality improvement activity?