Article: Asthma UK launches educational DRTV drive.(Brief article)

Asthma UK is to educate parents and teachers in a DRTV campaign.

The charity has appointed Broadsystem to provide 80 dedicated contact centre advisers to answer the estimated 20,000 calls it expects to generate.

The commercial, created by Claydon Heeley Jones Mason, will encourage sufferers to carry an Asthma Attack Card that provides basic information on how to recognise an attack, a person's contact details, and information which is specific to their condition.

Asthma kills one person every seven hours. Yet 90 per cent could be saved. A recent Asthma UK survey revealed that, although 93 per cent of people know asthma can be fatal, only 50 ...

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