Recent news shows that the UK is the centre of a global asthma crisis. We see a lot of asthma in Newham, it seems that every other person we pick up has the disease and carries around their blue Salbutamol inhaler. You can normally tell when it is going to be “asthma season”, either the temperature drops or there is a thunderstorm. On those days you tend to carry the asthma medications in your shirt pocket to save you having to open your response bag every job – and then having to repack it.