Attention asthma and allergy sufferers,
Make your voice heard in the workplace!
FACTS
- Every 17 minutes a child is admitted to hospital because of asthma
- 5.4 million people in Britain suffer from asthma
- 4.3 million adults and 1.1m children
- There are 1100 deaths from asthma in the UK a year (3 deaths every day)
- The NHS spends about £1 billion a year on asthma
- 25% of the population in Britain suffer from hayfever
- 1/3rd of children say that their asthma means they are left out of sports at school
AND
More than 1 million working days are lost each year due to breathing or lung problems
Source: Asthma UK and Allergy UK
