Personal & project statement for HIEC Child Health Theme (Improving care for children and young people with asthma)
Caro Minasian is a full-time consultant paediatrician based at University College London Hospital (UCLH). He completed his paediatric training in London and sub-speciality training in paediatric respiratory medicine at The Royal London, Royal Brompton & Great Ormond Street Hospitals. His MD research was on inhaled therapy mannitol in children with cystic fibrosis. He is an honorary paediatric respiratory consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital & an honorary senior lecturer at the UCL Institute of Child Health. He does specialist clinics in general paediatric respiratory medicine, asthma, cystic fibrosis and paediatric allergy. He is currently the Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health Tutor at UCLH and contributes widely to a number of teaching and training programmes in the hospital and university. He is also Deputy Divisional Clinical Director for paediatrics and adolescent medicine at UCLH and the lead for paediatrics within the emergency department.
For the last 18 months he has acted as clinical lead for a project to develop a new acute & urgent asthma care pathway for children and young people with asthma. This project has involved senior engagement & a large multi-disciplinary team, with a number of stakeholders across primary & secondary care. They have been supported by the NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement and Asthma UK in developing a number of patient-centred innovations and educational tools aimed at bringing rapid and effective improvement in the quality of clinical care. The aim is now to adopt this systems-wide approach to collaborate with others across a wider geographical sector to maximise improved delivery of asthma care to the population and to measure the impact of any improvement on the healthcare system and patients.