The document contains contact information for Johnathan Laird, a community pharmacist interested in asthma. It lists his credentials, websites, Twitter handle, and email for contacting him regarding his work with asthma patients. The document also includes graphs about reliever medication usage and asthma control test scores for patients seen in a pharmacy asthma clinic, indicating opportunities to improve preventer medication use and asthma control.

1. Johnathan Laird MRPharmS (iPresc)
Community pharmacist interested in asthma
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No.ofPatients
No of relievers
Reliever usage in the last 18 months from August
2014
Graph shows the overall usage of reliever meds including salbutamol
and terbutaline in the practice in the previous 18 months. There is
expected variance however I have used the data to prioritise the need
for review based primarily on overuse of relievers. I have escalated the
priority of overuser who have also not attended the asthma clinic. One of
the key aims of the clinic is to safely reduce the overall volume of
prescrptions for reliever meds by encouraging better preventer therapy.
The heaviest overuser are targetted for review and analysis of

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Asthma Control Tests Oct-Jan 2015
48% Patients scoreed 20 or above
26% Patients scored 15-20
26% Patients scoreed below 15
52% Patients seen classed uncontrolled

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