All links were accessed May 1 2018

1. Asthma UK. ‘Around 800,000 Brits with asthma getting poor care’. January 23 2018. https://www.asthma.org.uk/about/media/news/press-release-around-800000-brits-with-asthma-getting-poor-care/

2. NICE guideline NG80. ‘Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management’. November 2017. https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng80

3. British Thoracic Society & Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. ‘British guideline on the management of asthma – A national clinical guideline’. Revised 2016. https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/document-library/clinical-information/asthma/btssign-asthma-guideline-2016/

4. Asthma UK. ‘Falling through the gaps: why more people need basic asthma care. Annual Asthma Survey 2017 report’. January 23 2018. https://www.asthma.org.uk/share/?rid=7044

5. PJ Barnes. Similarities and differences in inflammatory mechanisms of asthma and COPD. Breathe 2011 7: 229-238. http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/7/3/229

6. DC Doeing and J Solway. ‘Airway smooth muscle in the pathophysiology and treatment of asthma’. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2013 Apr 1; 114(7): 834–843. https://www.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00950.2012

7. Asthma UK. ‘Symptoms of asthma’. Last reviewed November 2015. https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/understanding-asthma/symptoms/

8. K Esslemont. The Primary Care Respiratory Society. November 29 2017. https://www.pcrs-uk.org/news/nice-has-today-published-single-new-guideline-diagnosis-and-monitoring-asthma

9. BTS/SIGN British guideline on the management of asthma. January 2018. https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/standards-of-care/guidelines/btssign-british-guideline-on-the-management-of-asthma/

10. J White et al. ‘Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma: a look at the key differences between BTS/SIGN and NICE’. Thorax 2017;0:1–5. https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/media/382969/thoraxjnl-2017-211189.pdf

11. NICE. ‘New ways to diagnose and manage asthma can improve care, says NICE’. November 29 2017. https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/new-ways-to-diagnose-and-manage-asthma-can-improve-care-says-nice

12. NICE/BNF. ‘Asthma’. https://bnf.nice.org.uk/treatment-summary/asthma.html

13. Asthma UK. ‘Asthma inhalers, medicines and treatments’. Last updated May 2016. https://www.asthma.org.uk/advice/inhalers-medicines-treatments

14. NICE. Key therapeutic topic KTT5 ‘Asthma: medicines safety priorities’. Last updated February 2018. https://www.nice.org.uk/advice/ktt5

15. RA Elliott et al. ‘Cost Effectiveness of Support for People Starting a New Medication for a Long-Term Condition Through Community Pharmacies: An Economic Evaluation of the New Medicine Service (NMS) Compared with Normal Practice’. PharmacoEconomics (2017) 35:1237–1255. https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s40273-017-0554-9

16. YK Shirmanesh and MD Jones. ‘Physical ability of people with rheumatoid arthritis and age-sex matched controls to use four commonly prescribed inhaler devices’. Respiratory Medicine. February 2018. 135; 12-14.

17. British Lung Foundation. ‘Commissioners and service planners: Supporting pharmacists’. https://www.blf.org.uk/health-care-professionals/commissioners/supporting-pharmacists