SPACE

The SPACE tool has been designed to help practices to identify patients with asthma, COPD or bronchiectasis that might benefit from a spacer in combination with their Pressurised Metered Dose Inhaler (pMDI).

Features:

• identifies patients whose last prescription for a spacer has lapsed
• identifies patients with asthma, COPD or bronchiectasis and prescribed a pMDI without a spacer (NICE Technology appraisal guidance TA10)
• patients whose asthma, COPD or bronchiectasis is poorly managed for example poor inhaler technique, overuse of short acting bronchodilators, exacerbations or emergency admissions
• patients organised by condition (asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis)

This tool is available for use in England in EMIS and TPP SystmOne in  clinical system searches in SNOMED CT. The tool will also be made available to practices in Wales, Scotland and NI using Outcomes Manager.

Development of the tool

The development of the improvement tool has been funded by Trudell Medical UK Ltd. PRIMIS has retained editorial control and intellectual property rights for this audit tool.

PRIMIS does not share data with the medical devices or pharmaceutical industry. With prior agreement and only when specified within a joint working agreement, there may be pre-determined circumstances where aggregated, summative data only may be submitted. The purpose is to assess the success of the joint working initiative. Please note that this would never involve the reporting of patient or practice level data and would always be supported by a Data Sharing Agreement with the Data Controller (individual GP practices).

Obtaining the SPACE tool

• Please use the following link which will take you to sign the Terms and Conditions and to fill in some basic details:
• Sign the SPACE tool T&Cs
• After this, you’ll receive an email with access details to obtain the tool, plus supporting materials. If you have requested the Outcomes Manager version, we will notify you when the clinical pathway has been published to you.

Enquiries can be made to Trudell Medical UK Ltd, and should be directed to achauhan@trudellmedical.co.uk

Video for running the SPACE searches on EMIS Web