Under-Trained Primary Care Nurses ‘Uncomfortable’ Treating Allergy, UK

Three-quarters of primary care nurses have admitted to lacking even basic training in treating allergies, and more than half say they feel “uncomfortable” seeing patients with allergy-related conditions. This is despite the fact that in the UK the incidence of common allergic diseases has trebled in the last 20 years, to become one of the highest in the world - one in three of the UK population will be affected by allergic disease at some time in their life.

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Filed under: Allergies on June 10th, 2008