The National Allergy Strategy Launch

The National Allergy Strategy is pioneering in its scope as it has been developed in response to a growing and hitherto unresolved crisis and has for the first time united the whole allergy community with one voice. It sets out a broad vision, with the aim of:

• Reducing preventable harm, including fewer avoidable deaths and severe allergic reactions, through safer environments and earlier, more consistent intervention.
• Improving health outcomes and quality of life for people living with allergic disease, with greater safety, inclusion and confidence in everyday life.
• Reducing health and social inequalities, ensuring protection, access to care and quality of support do not depend on geography, background or individual advocacy.
• Ensuring equitable access to high‑quality, lifelong allergy care across all four nations, supported by consistent standards, safer transitions between services, and timely access to effective treatments.
• Developing a sustainable, skilled workforce and system capability, with allergy embedded in service planning, professional education and community provision to meet growing need.
• Ensuring better value for money for the NHS and wider public services, achieved through prevention, early intervention, improved data and surveillance, and more efficient use of resources.

The recommendations of the National Allergy Strategy are intended for wide dissemination and implementation by a range of public sector bodies including healthcare providers, government departments, as well as by schools, catering, retail and transport bodies. The successful roll-out of the strategy will entail a significant effort by everyone with responsibility in the aforementioned areas, as well as a collaborative approach between policymakers across the 4 nations of the UK and the allergy community, to make the change needed become a reality.

The real work of implementation starts now.