Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 99734

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Health Services

Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many referrals have been made for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as part of the Targeted Lung Health Checks programme; and what regional variation there has been in chronic obstructive p

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The data requested is not available centrally. To enable faster diagnosis and earlier access to treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, access to spirometry tests in community diagnostic centres (CDCs) is growing and will continue to do so as...
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