Question reference: S5W-35923
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 10 March 2021
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Current status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 24 March 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the SPIRE report, 'Respiratory search', will provide data on respiratory conditions other than high-risk asthmatics.
Answer
The original specification for this report was for Patients fully registered of all ages with a coded diagnosis of asthma (and no more recent code of asthma resolved) who:
Have had one or more hospital admissions or A&E attendances with asthma in the previous year
OR
Have ordered 6 or more ‘short acting beta agonist’ inhalers in the previous year
OR
Have ordered 6 or less steroid containing inhalers in the previous year
OR
Have had 2 or more asthma exacerbations in the previous year (prescription for oral steroids)
AND
Have not had an asthma review within the previous year
This is a local report which sites within local GP IT systems, and it is for practices to manage this information themselves.