Pediatric food allergy clinic: a way to improve the quality of service

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Paediatric food allergy is a common problem with a prevalence of 5% across the UK [1]. There are increasing demands of developing allergy services across the health care system in the UK. Establishing new allergy services among district hospitals, run by paediatricians with a special interest in allergy is recommended. Allergy clinics are multi-disciplinary in their design with emphasis on the role of dieticians and asthma nurses in the management of allergy. Clinicians should always think about tools to improve the quality of allergy clinics. We propose an allergy pro forma to be used in food allergy clinics to improve the quality of the service (Supplementary material 1). …