Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alan Meale (Labour), on Wednesday, 19 April 2017, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 13 members in total.

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LUNG DISEASE

That this House is aware that lung disease is the third biggest killer in the UK, affecting over 12 million people at an annual cost of billions of pounds to the public purse; is alarmed by recent figures which reveal that mortality rates have not improved in the last 10 years with the UK now suffering the worst levels in Europe of diseases such as asthma, lung cancer, COPD, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and mesothelioma; recognises the work of the British Lung Foundation in its fight to highlight this issue in its report, Battle For Breath, and calls on the Government to support its conclusions that there is a desperate need to establish an independent taskforce to produce a five year strategy to improve outcomes for patients and support the NHS in its quest to dramatically improve the present situation.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1154 

Session

2016-17

Other sponsors

Dennis Skinner

David Crausby

Mark Durkan

Jim Shannon

Chris Stephens

Subjects

Diseases

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk