Description

A Pharmacy contact in the City of Edinburgh partnership asked the Local Intelligence Support Team (LIST) to support a quality improvement project on Asthma inhaler prescriptions. An Asthma and Lung UK survey in 2021 showed that care in Scotland for respiratory conditions had reduced significantly and that the UK had one of the worst asthma death rates in Europe.

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Last updated: 16 March 2026