The National Asthma Council (NAC) updated the Australian guidelines on asthma management www.asthmahandbook.org.au in September 2025. The NAC’s updated Australian Asthma Handbook outlines important new recommendations that encourage health professionals to stop prescribing or advising treatment with as-needed short-acting beta2 agonists (SABA) alone to manage asthma in adults and adolescents. The revised guidelines now recommend anti-inflammatory reliever (AIR) only therapy and maintenance-and-reliever therapy (MART) for adults and adolescents (aged over 12). This focus centres on alleviating chronic inflammation in the airways, not just treating the symptoms.
NAC has also recently released new accompanying resources to help with translation into practice: www.nationalasthma.org.au/news/2026/suite-of-information-sheets-launched-on-five-key-asthma-topics
To help with implementation of the new asthma guidelines, we are hosting a free CPD webinar presented by:
- A/Prof Debbie Rigby: NAC Clinical Executive Lead and Advanced Practice Pharmacist
- Dr Brett Montgomery: NAC Guidelines Committee Chair and GP
- A/Prof Greg Katsoulotos: NAC Guidelines Committee member and Respiratory, Sleep and Allergy Physician.
Please share the webinar event with your staff and health professional networks via social media/website event listings or email/newsletters. Images are attached and the registration link is: https://bit.ly/4crJ80M