Napp Academy offers training and support that enables healthcare professionals to develop their asthma knowledge and improve asthma services. Further information about our asthma courses is provided below.
Masterclass: Appropriate Prescribing in Asthma
This bespoke respiratory course is specifically designed for healthcare professionals who wish to increase their respiratory knowledge and skills to support them in clinical practice. It suits those who have experience and/or knowledge of asthma and who require an update in the area of respiratory medicine, and includes all relevant clinical guidelines.
This course is brought to you in collaboration with Education for Health.
The course covers:
- Asthma pathophysiology – a recap: what are we treating and why?
- Treating asthma: current evidence and guidelines
- Assessing and maintaining control with personalised asthma action plans
- National Review of Asthma Deaths – lessons learned?
- Stepping up and stepping down: when, why and how. The clinical and medico-legal implications
- Case studies on best practice to help you with some of your challenges
Who is it for?
Nurses who are currently seeing respiratory patients and require support in clinical practice; GPs who want to improve their respiratory knowledge; pharmacists who conduct reviews with respiratory patients; CCG training leads who are responsible for the training of nurses.
Napp Academy Respiratory Excellence Bursary – Education for Health
Napp Academy Respiratory Excellence Bursary funding is available for a range of diplomas, degrees and masters via Education for Health, relating to asthma and quality-assured spirometry. These are 6 month courses delivered by interactive online learning, supported by two study days.
i2i Best Practice Pharmacist – Exclusive Asthma Partners
Napp Academy supports the development of practice-based pharmacist training programmes through training workshops and web-based implementation resources. These programmes support practice pharmacists to become expert clinicians and change agents in the management of respiratory care. They help to demonstrate the impact and value of practice pharmacists on practice workload, clinical outcomes, standardisation of care, medicines management metrics (where relevant) and patient satisfaction. Additionally, they support practice-based pharmacists grow networks and share best practice, as well create a business case for the role of practice pharmacist sustainability.
