Question follow-through · 94655
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve early diagnosis of COPD.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 26 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 10 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve early diagnosis of COPD.
1 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Dec 2025
Answer published
To enable faster diagnosis and earlier access to treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), access to spirometry tests in community diagnostic centres (CDCs) is growing and will continue to do so as more sites come online. The first five ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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