Le chiamate per ripulire “Air tossic” dell’Inghilterra mentre le visite GP per gli attacchi di asma aumentano del 45%

The number of patients being treated by GPs for asthma attacks has increased by 45% in a year, prompting calls for urgent action to tackle toxic levels of air pollution.

There were 45,458 presentations to family doctors in England between January and June this year, according to data from the Royal College of General Practitioners research and surveillance centre. Across the same period in 2024, there were 31,376 cases.

The figures come a week after a damning report by the Royal College of Physicians revealed that 99% of the UK population was now breathing in “toxic air”. Air pollution was killing 500 people a week and costing £27bn a year in ill health, NHS care and productivity losses, the research showed.

New data from the RCGP research and surveillance centre shows the rate of asthma attacks in 2025 has consistently been above the five-year average.

Exacerbations of asthma – attacks which cause breathlessness and chest tightness – were, alongside other environmental and lifestyle factors, closely linked to air pollution as patients’ airways could be irritated by exposure to harmful matter, the RCGP said.

Cut back on Cars and log burners. I’m sure we can have a non emotional conversation about this.

I don’t know how general this is but I can tell you of my experience with the GP’s/hospitals in handling my mother’s asthma.

The simple answer: they don’t do anything.

For the past year she has had trouble breathing even with her inhalers, and has been hospitalised 3 times because of it.

Her GP just makes hospital referrals stating there is nothing they can do.

Hospitals have done nothing and have literally said it’s not their job, it’s the GP’s job. This has happened with 3 different hospitals. The ‘respiratory department’ has said it is NOT their problem! Madness!

When she has been admitted to hospitals they pump her full of anti-biotic and steroids and give her tonnes of nebulised asthma meds and send her off after a week or so and she is fine for a couple of weeks then back to having breathing problems.

There is no advice from the GP or hospitals.

As meds are not working, I’ve resorted to trial and error with supplements and I’ve found some that make a difference but unfortunately she can’t take long term because of the interactions with her other meds.

So is the so called ‘toxic air’ to blame or shit management from GP’s and hospitals causing repeat visits?

What we should do is remove all the benefits people used to get for buying an electric car. That should clean the air up.

Typical clickbait headlines. If you look at the air quality of the UK, its not at toxic levels at all