Drawing Breath is the first ‘state of the nation’ report to combine data on asthma, COPD and pulmonary rehabilitation across primary and secondary care services to underpin key messages, optimising respiratory care across the pathway.This report includes recommendations for commissioners and providers, clinical teams and people with asthma and COPD, their families and carers.
Erratum
Drawing breath clinical audit report 2021/22 Erratum provides information of changes made to Version 2 of the reports.
Additional resources
Data analysis and methodology report - data analyses from which the key findings and recommendations were derived
Benchmarked key indicators - unadjusted benchmarking of key indicators for participating hospitals
Quality improvement slides - slide-sets highlighting key findings from the report, to inform and support clinical teams to make improvements - adult asthma, children and young people asthma, COPD, pulmonary rehabilitation
Participation
A list of eligible services, and those that participated in the audit, can be found here.
Data and variables
This presents aggregated, service level data as is used in the analysis for the Drawing breath report.
Adult asthma service level data
Children and young people (age 1 to 5) asthma service level data
Children and young people (age 6+) asthma service level data