This presents the data from the National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Audit
Programme’s secondary care clinical audit 2017. The continuous audit, which captures the process and clinical outcomes of treatment in patients admitted to hospital in England and Wales with COPD exacerbations, launched on 1 February 2017. This is the first report post launch of continuous data collection, which presents the results of
the cohort of patients discharged between the audit’s launch date and 13 September 2017.
In his transparency and open data letter to Cabinet Ministers on 7 July 2011, the Prime Minister restated 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.
