Children's Asthma
Children's Asthma
This page provides information about our Children's Asthma team, their services, and resources to help manage asthma.
Meet the team
- Dr Hunjan – Consultant Paediatrician
- Dr Wensley – Consultant Paediatrician
- Libby Holroyd – Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Asthma
- Lorna Butterworth – Clinical Nurse Specialist for Children’s Asthma
About the team
Our team’s aim:
The team aims to accurately diagnose, monitor and support children, young people and their families with the management of their asthma so that they can lead healthy lives.
Services provided by our team:
- Inpatient review and education
- Personalised asthma action plans
- Medication reviews and advice
- Complex asthma interventions – i.e. directly observed therapy
- Community – home visits, school visits
- Specialist asthma review clinics
- Spirometry clinics
- Transition clinics and support when moving to adult services
- Liaise with primary and tertiary services to ensure seamless care
- Target events with primary care teams
Multidisciplinary team (MDT) clinics and nurse-led clinics are held in the children's outpatients departments at:
- Pontefract Hospital
- Pinderfields Hospital
- Dewsbury District Hospital
Referrals:
Referrals to consultant clinics can be made from primary care through e-consultation. Some children may be invited to a clinic appointment in the hospital following an admission to hospital.
Useful information for patients
Useful information for patients
Allergy UK – Information about asthma and asthma triggers
Aspire - Free healthy living advice and activity programme available to people with a WF postcode. Our asthma team can refer under 18s to the programme.
Asthma and your child– Advice and support from Asthma & Lung UK to help your child stay well with their asthma
Beat Asthma – resources for families, young people, schools, healthcare professionals
Moving on Asthma – A resource for young people living with asthma.
West Yorkshire Healthier Together – Asthma advice for home, asthma friendly schools, medications, signposting for support for issues with home environments
Apps
Asthmahub for parents of asthmatics
Met Office Weather App – Information about pollen and pollution levels where you live
Feedback
“We spoke to our asthma nurse and she was fantastic. She went to our child's school, explained asthma and brittle asthma, taught the teachers how to give inhalers properly and the signs to watch for if our child was to develop respiratory distress."
"With our asthma nurse’s support, school can now support our child's education and health. This has given our family so much."
"Having the support of an asthma nurse is invaluable. Having an asthma nurse gives you power and confidence. Having an asthma nurse puts us in charge not asthma."
"When we asked our child what having an asthma nurse means to him he was very clear with his answer “not being scared of my asthma” and “school trips”. Trips are something our child would not have been able to go on before the asthma nurse began supporting us."
"Asthma is a serious condition that can be devastating on families and the children suffering from asthma if they do not get the support they need.”