A new era in asthma care

Despite well-established treatments, an increasingly sophisticated pathological understandig and ongoing therapeutic innovation, asthma deaths in the UK rose between 2014 and 2022. Last year, the British Thoracic Society, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network issued guidelines covering asthma diagnosis, monitoring and management. This article considers the context for the suggestions and some recent studies relevant to the guidelines.