Asthma Right Care (ARC) is a global initiative led by the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG), which uses “social movement” approaches to create a sense of discomfort with current asthma management, so that people will make changes in what they do.¹ Social movements create change through ‘followers’ – examples include campaigns such as ‘Hello my name is…’ and antibiotic guardians that are prominent in pharmacy and elsewhere.

ARC wants to create a sense of discomfort around SABA use (like antibiotics) and create ‘SABA guardians’. The IPCRG believes that there must be a relatively high degree of comfort with current asthma management because there is not much noise about the need for change, despite changes in national and international asthma management guidelines and signs of increasing incidence of poorly controlled disease.

Asthma Control Test

Below is the Asthma Control Test from Asthma UK. It can be used by patients to provide a snapshot of the effectiveness of their asthma control.