Summers, Rachael H.
Sharmeen, Taniya
Lippiett, Kate
Gillett, Kate
Astles, Carla
Vu, Linh
Stafford-Watson, Mark
Bruton, Anne
Thomas, Mike
Wilkinson, Tom
Article History
Received: 21 March 2017
Revised: 10 July 2017
Accepted: 11 July 2017
First Online: 29 August 2017
Competing interests
: In the last 3 years KL has received speaker’s honoraria for speaking at sponsored meetings and sponsorship for academic courses/conference attendance from the following companies marketing respiratory and allergy products: GSK, Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva. In the last 3 years C.A. has received speaker’s honoraria for speaking at sponsored meetings from the following companies marketing respiratory products: GSK, Orion, Napp, Teva, Pfizer. In the last 3 years M.T. has received speaker’s honoraria for speaking at sponsored meetings or satellite symposia at conferences from the following companies marketing respiratory and allergy products: Aerocrine, GSK, Novartis. He has received honoraria for attending advisory panels with; Aerocrine, Boehringer Inglehiem, GSK, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer. He is a member of the BTS SIGN Asthma guideline steering group and the NICE Asthma Diagnosis and Monitoring guideline development group. T.W. has received travel sponsorship and honoraria for speaking at sponsored meetings or satellite symposia at conferences from the following companies marketing respiratory products:, GSK, Boehringer Ingleheim, AZ. He is a member of the BTS Home Oxygen Standards of Care Committee. He is co-founder and director of MyMHealth Ltd. R.S., T.S., K.G., L.V., M.S.-W. and A.B. have no conflicts of interest. Neither K.L., C.A. or M.T. nor any member of their close families have any shares in pharmaceutical companies.