Complacency Leading To Thousands Of U.K. Asthma Deaths, Charity Says

The number of people dying from asthma in the U.K. is rising, with hundreds “needlessly” passing from the disease every year, a charity has warned.

Around 12,000 people died of asthma in the country over the last ten years, with the annual toll a quarter higher than it was a decade ago, according to Asthma + Lung UK.

This is despite evidence that about two-thirds of such deaths are preventable, according to a review written by the Royal College of Physicians back in 2014.

Overuse of reliever inhalers and underuse of preventer inhalers are both risk…