COPD

Our aim is to produce a strategy that will:

• ensure that everyone diagnosed with COPD receives equitable, responsive, high quality and effective provision of health and social care services from the right person, at the right time, in the right place, that are cost effective and provide good value for money for taxpayers.
• advise how local communities can prevent people getting COPD, understand the risks of having poor lung health, secure improvements to the diagnosis and care of people with the disease, and reduce health inequalities.
• support people with COPD and their carers by offering practical advice and education on managing their disease.

We also aim to provide advice and support for commissioners, hospitals, general practice, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs). All these constituent parts of the NHS must deliver services for COPD while planning, developing and monitoring of services.

Because of the magnitude of the burden of asthma, the National Strategy for COPD will also contain a section to highlight where there are synergies in the approach to the care of these two conditions and where there are differences. It also highlights aspects of good asthma services.

We would like you to tell us what you think of the draft of the National Strategy for COPD. In particular, we want to know if you think the strategy as it stands meets our objectives (outlined above) and if there are any detailed changes that would make the Strategy more successful in practice.

This consultation will be open until 6 April 2010.

Contact the respiratory team  lungs@dh.gsi.gov.uk

• Facts about COPD
• Consultation on a Strategy for Services for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in England
• Respond to the consultation online (opens new window)
• The NHS Lung Improvement Programme (opens new window)
• the presentations from the NHS Consultation Events (opens new window)