NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR ASTHMA

Early day motion 2100, tabled 11 October 2007 by Khalid Mahmood (Labour). Signed by 59 members.

That this House acknowledges the high numbers of asthma patients in the UK; calls on the Government to introduce a National Service Framework for asthma care; notes with concern the number of deaths from asthma in the UK, currently standing at 1,400 per annum, with 40 of those being children aged under 14 years; further notes that 75 per cent. of the 69,000 hospital admissions due to asthma are avoidable and that these admissions cost the NHS nearly £900 million per year; and concludes that a National Service Framework for Asthma would make a valuable contribution to preventing deaths and unnecessary hospitalisations as a result of asthma and would ease the burden on parents of children who suffer from severe asthma.

Signatures by party: Labour 44, Liberal Democrat 6, Conservative 4, DUP 2, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.