I have asthma and have a review each year with the asthma nurse at my GP surgery. Today I received a letter informing me that the review would take place by telephone at a specified time. This rather surprised me because each year I receive a questionnaire about how my asthma has/has not limited my activities to fill in and take to the review and the nurse checks my ‘peak flow’, (lung capacity) which is always really abysmal. Of course they might send me a questionnaire to complete and return but there was no mention of that, and I don’t have a peak flow monitor to test myself. I rarely need to bother the doctor, thank goodness, but this doesn’t seem a very good way of doing this sort of check. Has anyone else had an asthma review conducted by phone? Apologies for the rant!
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