Education event slides
The Wessex Asthma Network holds four education meetings annually. Below is a list of recent talks from members of the Network and outside experts. Links to the slide sets are listed below where available. Please do not re-use any of this material without permission as it is the property of the relevant speakers.
If you have suggestions for a talk that you would like to hear at a future meeting then please contact us
October 2017 meeting
Dr Thomas Jones, PHT – Wessex Severe Asthma Cohort results – PDF
Mr Marcus Pullen, Blue Donut Studios – Asthma education videos
Dr Paddy Dennison, UHS – Smart inhalers – PDF
Prof Rob Horne, UCL – Adherence in asthma
Drs Laura Flower and Helen Aiston, UHS – Symptoms that medicine can’t explain – PDF
June 2017 meeting
Dr Kathryn Bannell, Petersfield & Dr Paddy Dennison, UHS – Asthma guidelines; BTS vs NICE – PDF
Ms Amanda MacNally, Vine Group – Management of Asthma in Primary Care
Dr Hitasha Rupani, PHT – Asthma COPD Overlap (Syndrome) – PDF
Dr Andy Powell, WHCCG – West Hants Inhaler guidelines – PDF
March 2017 meeting
Dr Andy Powell, WHCCG – Progress, Paediatrics and Protocols – PDF
Dr Ben Ainsworth, UHS – Psychological Dysfunction in Asthma – PDF
Dr Hitasha Rupani, PHT – Anti-IL5 Treatments for Eosinophilic Asthma
Prof Mike Thomas – Primary care asthma research in Wessex
January 2017 meeting
Prof Graham Roberts – Transitional Asthma Care- How Can We Do it Better?
Dr Anindo Banerjee – CPET in the Asthma Clinic – a Useful tool?
Yvette Thirlwall – Bringing Research into the Asthma Clinic – The WATCH Study
Teresa Warr – Specialist Commissioning in Severe Asthma
Prof Peter Howarth – What You Need to Know About FeNO
Prof Ratko Djukanovic – The Practical Approach to Treating Chronic Cough – PDF
October 2016 meeting
Dr Hitasha Rupani, PHT – Development of a Complex Breathlessness Service
David Supple – PPI involvement in asthma
Dr Kamran Tariq – Gastro Oesophageal Reflux Disease in Asthma
Nikco Hau – Wessex Asthma Network model report
July 2016 meeting
Prof Anoop Chauhan – Air pollution and Asthma
Prof Peter Howarth – Airway Microbiome in Asthma
Dr Jaymin Morjaria – Smoking Cessation
Dr Akul Sinhania – Gene expression in severe asthma
April 2016 meeting
Dr James Hull – Complex Breathing
Dr Simon Bourne – Self-Management platforms and myAsthma
Sally-Ann Denton – Salicylates and Sulphites in asthma
