A suite of Population Reporting searches for EMIS, created by the CDRC can be used to help improve asthma care and identify high risk patients.
Accessing the Population Reporting Searches
To access the CDRC Quality Respiratory Population Reporting Searches on EMIS, you will need to download and import the following .zip file:
As the operator of the CDRC, Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria Limited (on behalf of itself and/or its licensors) grants you a licence to copy and download this document in accordance with our terms of use. You must not modify the content of this document in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. For further details, please see our terms of use (Terms of use – Clinical Digital Resource Collaborative (cdrc.nhs.uk)
If you have not performed this process before, please refer to the Download/ Import guide below, which provides you with step-by-step instructions on how to Download and Import .zip files into EMIS:
You can check whether you have the most up-to-date version by reviewing the date on the .zip file. Any updates to the Population Reporting searches will be communicated to CDRC Precision users via the mailing list for the CDRC. To ensure you stay up to date with the latest information, please sign up to the mailing list at http://eepurl.com/9131L
Guidance on the CDRC Quality Respiratory Population Reporting Searches
To view CDRC’s focused Population Reporting Respiratory searches navigate to the CDRC Quality Respiratory (14th May 2025) folder and open the CDRC Quality Respiratory Focused Reports folder.

There is multiple reports within the Focused Report folder, we have provided sub-headings to make it easier to identify the reports you would like to run.
These reports highlight patients clinicians may wish to review based on the information pulled from their health record. Such as SABA Overuse identifies patients who are potentially overusing their SABA inhaler, you may with to invite these patients in for a review. Concordance Alert reports are available to identify patients with poor inhaler concordance. Green Prescribing reports help to identify patients who may benefit from switching to a more environmentally friendly alternative.

