After a long wait, and years after updated international guidelines, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has worked with the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) to produce a unified guideline on asthma for the UK (NICE et al, 2024).

It comes at a time when seven out of ten people with asthma are not receiving the basic care they need to stay well, often resulting in their condition being uncontrolled and leaving them at risk of lifethreatening asthma attacks. In fact, the number of asthma deaths has actually risen over the past decade (https://ow.ly/zA1750V5ZRy; https:// ow.ly/OycP50V5ZS0; https://ow.ly/ TIe250V5ZSQ).