National COPD Audit Programme secondary care organisational audit 2017

This presents the data from the National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Audit Programme’s secondary care organisational audit 2017. The results are of a snapshot audit of the organisation and resourcing of COPD care that was undertaken in hospitals in England and Wales. Data were collected between 3 April and 30 June 2017. In his transparency and open data letter to Cabinet Ministers on 7 July 2011, the Prime Minister re-stated the commitment to make audit data available from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme. The National COPD Audit Programme have made their data available for this purpose.