Asthma Nurse Consultant
| Posting date: | 28 April 2026 |
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| Salary: | £88,250.00 to £100,355.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £88250.00 - £100355.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2026 |
| Location: | London, SE1 9RT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9196-26-0522 |
Summary
This project aims to enhance asthma care through following a similar process to a previous AAC project carried out nationwide. This will enable the identification of patients who may benefit from timely referral to severe asthma services. The secondary aim is to improve long term sustainability of improvements in asthma care by implementing streamlined referral pathways and developing a business case to ensure long term quality improvement is embedded. This project aims to increase efficiency in the severe asthma system and increase the number of appropriate referrals for severe asthma services for uncontrolled high risk asthma patients, during the duration of this project, the appointed Nurse Consultant roles include: Proactive identification of uncontrolled asthma patients Increasing the quantity of suspected Severe Asthma patient review in primary care, by approximately 1024 patients. Increase quantity of appropriate patients referred to severe asthma specialist from Primary Care. Expected to be Approximately 25% of reviewed patients. Improve quality of referral to severe asthma specialist from primary care and reduce rejected referral rate. Increase initiation of appropriate therapy where appropriate to do so. It is expected that approximately 180 additional patients will be initiated on biologic therapy during the course of this project. Reduce overall exposure to Oral Corticosteroid. Supporting the education of clinicians involved with severe asthma care, to increase diagnosis, time to diagnosis, and quality of referral to severe asthma services.