Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party), on Wednesday, 10 November 2004, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 41 members in total.

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WORLD COPD DAY AND THE BRITISH LUNG FOUNDATION

That this House supports World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Day on 17th November; commends the British Lung Foundation for organising the event in this country and its aims of raising awareness of a disease with an estimated three million people living with COPD in the UK; notes that COPD - chronic bronchitis and emphysema - is a progressive and disabling lung disease, caused primarily by smoking and that, as the disease progresses, patients suffer from increasingly sever attacks of breathlessness that can leave them housebound or result in repeated extended hospital admissions; and thus welcomes the NHS focus on chronic disease management in the NHS Improvement Plan, published in June 2004, and the publication of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence Guideline on the Management of COPD in the Primary and Secondary Care in February 2004 which, if implemented fully, would assist in reducing emergency hospitalisations and help improve the prognosis for people with this highly debilitating condition.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1905 

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Diseases Respiratory system Respiratory diseases Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease British Lung Foundation

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk