Asthma UK

Asthma UK is a British charity based in London.

The Asthma Research Council was started in 1927. At that time the annual income was between £1,000 and £4,000 a year. One of the first dontaions was used to pay for special asthma clinics at Guy's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1989 it became the National Asthma Campaign and in 2004, when support for people with asthma had become more important, it changed its name to Asthma UK.

It established a new Centre for Applied Research in asthma in 2014.

It produces the Asthma UK Asthma Control Test, a simple on-line tool which gives a score of a patient's asthma symptom control over a four-week period which can assess the severity of risk.

In January 2017 it published the results of a survey of 4,650 patients showing that about 3.6 million people across the UK were not getting adequate routine care for their asthma. This should include an appropriate annual asthma review (more often for severe cases and children),the right medication and knowing how to use it, and a written asthma action plan.

Chris Tarrant, who has asthma, presented an appeal for the charity in 2013 on BBC television.

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