WORLD COPD DAY AND THE BRITISH LUNG FOUNDATION

Early day motion 1905, tabled 10 November 2004 by Gregory Campbell (DUP). Signed by 41 members.

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.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Conservative 7, Liberal Democrat 7, DUP 3, Labour/Co-operative 3, UUP 2, Plaid Cymru 1.