Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 94655

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Diagnosis

Tabled: 26 November 2025

Answered: 10 December 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve early diagnosis of COPD.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

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 ...

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