NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK ON CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE

Early day motion 2457, tabled 27 June 2006 by Howard Stoate (Labour). Signed by 79 members.

That this House welcomes the new National Service Framework on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); congratulates the British Lung Foundation and Breathe Easy for leading the campaign and the wider respiratory community for working together to move the issue up the political agenda; regrets that an estimated three million people are affected by COPD; calls for the new National Service Framework to be implemented in full across England to ensure that the treatment and care of people living with COPD is improved; and echoes the call made by the British Lung Foundation for additional chapters to be announced on other lung diseases in due course.

Signatures by party: Labour 53, Liberal Democrat 14, Conservative 6, Plaid Cymru 3, DUP 1, Independent 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.