Asthma Society of Ireland
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Mission Statement
The Asthma Society of Ireland’s mission is to stop asthma deaths in Ireland. We are the voice of the 450,000 people with asthma in Ireland, and our work radically transforms their quality of life. We fight asthma with every breath. Our vision is that everyone with asthma in Ireland lives a full life, symptom-free. We are evidence-led; our services and programmes are endorsed by our Medical Advisory Group, made up of some of Ireland’s leading respiratory clinicians. Our Freephone Adviceline nurse appointments and Beating Breathlessness WhatsApp and webinar programmes are a lifeline for patients, scoring highly on the recommender rating. Our awareness-building, research and advocacy programmes have won several awards, including the prestigious Irish Healthcare Awards in 2019 (across all four categories in which we were nominated) and in 2020, for promoting asthma management and assessing asthma’s economic impact. We also aim to be a best-in-class charity in terms of governance and organisation. We play a key role as change-makers in Ireland’s health and respiratory landscape. Our work seeks to support and empower the most marginalised and vulnerable asthma patients in Irish society by advocating for affordable, accessible services, and partnering with representative organisations to improve health literacy, disseminate health information tailored to their needs, deliver accessible supports, enhance the patient’s ability to self-advocate in healthcare settings and to manage their disease at home, where possible.
About This Cause
Our Five Strategic Pillars: 1. We champion change by advocating to prevent asthma deaths. 2. We communicate about asthma to ensure it is taken seriously as a health challenge. 3. We support with services for all people with asthma, empowering them to control the condition and providing health promotion programmes which deliver impactful asthma interventions. 4. We learn together and collaborate with healthcare, research and education professionals – and always with patients – to improve our understanding of how asthma works and how to combat it. 5. We build our capacity to deliver for patients by growing and diversifying our funding streams, by innovating and by being best-in-class as a charity. In 2022, we are particularly seeking funding and support to rollout our highly successful Asthma Safe Schools programme, to help and support the one in ten children in Ireland who currently have asthma. The programme seeks to support children, parents and teachers to help children's asthma be be controlled by creating: 1. An understanding of asthma and its presentation, incl. symptoms and exacerbations (flare-ups) 2. An understanding of medications and their optimisation, incl. inhaler technique and adherence 3. An understanding of personalised asthma “triggers” and exposure reduction strategies 4. An up-to-date written Asthma Action Plan 5. An understanding of how to recognise when a child is deteriorating 6. Knowing how to respond in the event of an asthma attack – the 5 Step Rule We fight asthma with every breath. We need your help to continue to offer our life-saving services and to change the the public and patient perception of asthma so that we can keep every adult and child with asthma safe and well.