HEALTHCARE
PROFESSIONAL
EDUCATION

This pillar contains SENTINEL Plus healthcare professional education resources and provides the foundation for implementing the wider toolkit.

To support meaningful and sustained change, this education should be delivered across the full primary care team, including clinicians, pharmacists, nursing staff, and wider practice colleagues involved in asthma management and prescribing. You may consider building it into inductions for new staff and/or introducing this as annual mandatory training.

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY
ASTHMA MANAGEMENT

This video:

introduces the principles of anti-inflammatory based asthma management
outlines the concepts of as needed anti-inflammatory reliever (AIR) and maintenance and reliever therapy (MART)
discusses how this approach aligns with the 2024 BTS/NICE/SIGN guidelines.

SELECTING THE MOST
APPROPRIATE INHALER DEVICE

This video:

explains why shared decision-making with patients when choosing and reviewing inhaler therapies is important
why a collaborative approach supports better adherence and can improve inhaler technique
discusses how choosing the right inhaler for your patient can increase the likelihood of sustained asthma control.

THE SENTINEL PLUS PROSPECTUS

The SENTINEL Plus prospectus provides an overview of the rationale behind SENTINEL and SENTINEL Plus, the impact of the original SENTINEL quality improvement project and the 5 pillars of implementation:

DOWNLOAD SENTINEL PLUS PROSPECTUS

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GB-76216 | May 2026

SENTINEL Plus is developed with the aim of improving outcomes for asthma patients through identifying and addressing short-acting beta 2 agonist (SABA) over-reliance

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WELCOME TO SENTINEL PLUS

HEALTHCAREPROFESSIONALEDUCATION

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ASTHMA MANAGEMENT

SELECTING THE MOST APPROPRIATE INHALER DEVICE