National COPD Audit Programme pulmonary rehabilitation clinical and organisational audit 2017

This presents the data from the National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Audit Programme’s pulmonary rehabilitation clinical and organisational audit 2017. This comprised snapshot audits of the resources and organisation of PR services across England and Wales conducted between 3 January and 28 April 2017 and the process and clinical outcomes of treatment in patients with COPD assessed for PR between 3 January and 31 March 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.