What action would you take to stop 10 jumbo jets crashing every week of the year, to prevent the deaths of nearly 700 people on board each time, when regular systematic checks of each aircraft could virtually eliminate the problem?

Difficult to manage asthma

Clinical co-chairs of project: Stephen Holgate and Dermot Ryan

Clinical authors of desktop helper: Armando Brito de Sa, Pascal Chanez, Javiera Corbalan, Jaime Correia de Sousa, Breda Flood (EFA), Liam Heaney, Michael Hyland, Jan Lottval (EAACI), Bjorn Stallberg, Scott Wagers, Osman Yusuf

*SIMPLES acronym: Anna Murphy

Writer and Editor: Susan Mayor

Difficult to manage asthma: Package to achieve change: www.theipcrg.org/display/DIFFMANAST/

Literature review

Peer-reviewed publication: submission due by Christmas

Desktop helper in English

Desktop helper transposed by member groups: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Greek, Portuguese, Polish

Practical resources eg referral letter

Directory of further resources: free online

Policy briefing: why it’s important, endorsed by EFA

SIMPLES video and script http://vimeo.com/66828323

Conversation between GP and hospital specialist at ERS Primary care day 2013

education@pcrj September 2013 http://www.thepcrj.org/journ/view_article.php?article_id=1065

Expert meeting hosted by IPCRG with primary care, patient and hospital experts, medical writer, funded by educational grant from Novartis