HCT and West Hertfordshire Hospitals Trust run an integrated Asthma and Wheeze nurse-led service that aims to improve outcomes and to support children, their families and local services with the long-term management of asthma/wheeze to prevent attacks. The nurses provide a collaborative approach as a community and hospital integrated team with children being seen in clinics according to clinical need.
Full details are available on this Patient Information flyer.
Clinic locations and timings
Peace Children’s Centre, Watford – Monday mornings and Thursday Afternoons
Marlows Health and Wellbeing Centre – Alternate Thursday afternoons
St Albans Health and Wellbeing Centre (Civic Centre)– Tuesday Afternoons
The specialist asthma nurses provide training and support to local services to support children, young people and their parents/carers to self manage their asthma or wheeze. The nurses will provide a collaborative approach as a community and hospital integrated team. Where appropriate, children can be seen in clinics according to clinical need and this will take place within 4 weeks following accepted referral to the service.
The service accepts patients aged 2 to 16 years old who are registered with a West Herts GP and have presented on two or more occasions with exacerbation of pre-school wheeze/viral wheeze or asthma. This is NOT an urgent care pathway; the child must have recovered from an attack and be clinically stable. For children who require a same day (or up to 48 hour) nursing review please follow the Urgent Care pathway.
Referrals are accepted Monday – Friday between 9am and 5pm by submitting a completed referral form and emailing it to hct.cypasthmawheeze@nhs.net. The referral form can also be accessed via DXS by West Herts GPs.
