Welcome To The British Society for Allergy & Clinical Immunology

The BSACI aims to support its membership in providing a high quality NHS based service for the treatment of people with allergic disease and other disorders of the immune system.

 


News release.

Shortage of allergy specialists to diagnose children with food allergies.

 

There is a great shortage of NHS specialists capable of dealing effectively with children who may have a food allergy the UK. Without allergy specialists improvement to services will not occur leaving children at risk of being misdiagnosed.

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BSACI response to new RCP report  

 

Services for allergy sufferers have not improved despite DoH recommendations. 

 

HoL Report: Allergy services- still not meeting the unmet needs RCP Report: Allergy services- still not meeting the unmet needs 470.02 Kb

 

 

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New ‘Local Clinical Audit Handbook for Physicians'

 

The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has launched its new ‘Local Clinical Audit Handbook for Physicians'. RCP Clinical Vice President Dr Michael Cheshire comments: "Clinical audit is a crucial tool for upholding standards and achieving improved care. Local clinical audit has enormous clinical potential which to date has been, to a large extent, untapped..."

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SpR Allergy Training Days

 

The BSACI are running several Allergy Training workshops throughout 2010 and 2011 for allergy and Immunology SPRs. 

 

These courses are free to BSACI members and cost £100 each for non-members. All wishing to attend MUST REGISTER with Fiona Rayner on 0207 808 7138 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

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The Essential Allergy Update for Primary Care professionals

9th September 2010, Telford International Centre, Telford
           

A one day meeting designed for GPs and primary care nurses hosted by: Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK); the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI); in conjunction with the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Education for Health.

 

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