RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE ASTHMA STORM REPORT
* Strengthen communications between health organisations, including a regular meeting of all hospitals
* Get a centralised online system linking all hospitals
* Work with pharmacies to define the role they should play in emergencies
* Develop a new emergency warning process
* Share information rapidly in emergencies either by a conference call or face-to-face meetings co-ordinated by the Department of Health and Human Services
* Agencies to amend systems so emergency warnings are sent out to the public during a thunderstorm asthma event
* Combine information from health, weather, pollen and other agencies to better predict a rapid onset emergency
* Implement pollen and fungal monitoring sites across Victoria
* Public awareness and education campaign
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