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COPD National Strategy Quick Reference Guide Primary Care Respiratory Society UK
Introduction Prevention & awareness Identification & diagnosis Chronic care Acute care Self care End-of-Life care Asthma Implementing the strategy

Prevention and Awareness Resources
COPD National Strategy Slide Kit (members only)
Consultation on a strategy for COPD (Feb 2010)
PCRS-UK COPD National Strategy Resources
PCRJ COPD National Strategy Supplement
PCRS-UK Guidance on the Diagnosis and Management of COPD
GOLD COPD Guidance
NICE COPD Guidance
Conditions of Use
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COPD National Strategy
Prevention and Awareness

Further Information for Professionals

Primary care tools and resources

PCRS-UK:
Opinion: Smoking cessation

IPCRG
Guidance on smoking cessation in primary care: Tackling the Smoking Epidemic

Other Services
 NHS Stop Smoking Services: http://smokefree.nhs.uk/why-go-smokefree
Quit: Quitline 0800 00 22 00
Asian Quitline 0800 00 22 88

Key reviews and evidence
  • van Schayck O, Pinnock H, Østrem A, Litt J, Tomlins R, Williams S, et al. IPCRG Consensus statement: Tackling the smoking epidemic - practical guidance for primary care. Prim Care Respir J 2008; 17: 185-193
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. Bethesda; NHLBI. 2010
  • Parkes G, Greenhalgh T, Griffin M, Dent R. Effect on smoking quit rate of telling patients their lung age: the Step2quit randomised controlled trial. BMJ 2008; 336:598-600
  • Gilliland FD, Berhane K, McConnell R et al. Maternal smoking during pregnancy, environmental tobacco smoke exposure and childhood lung function. Thorax 2000; 55: 271–276
  • Løkke A, Lange P, Scharling H et al. Developing COPD: a 25 year follow up study of the general population. Thorax 2006; 61: 935–939
  • Trupin L, Earnest G, San Pedro M et al. The occupational burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Eur Respir J 2003; 22: 462–469
  • den Exter Blokland EA, Engels RC, Hale WW et al. Lifetime parental smoking history and cessation and early adolescent smoking behavior. Preventive Med 2004; 38: 359–368
  • C Svanes, J Sunyer, E Plana, S Dharmage, J Heinrich, D Jarvis, R de Marco, D Norback, C Raherison, S Villani, M Wjst, K Svanes, J M Anto. Early life origins of chronic obstructive pulmonaryDisease. Thorax 2010; 65:14-20
    National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Preventing the uptake of smoking by children and young people. Public Health Guidance PH14. NICE. 2008
Author: Dr Hilary Pinnock, University of Edinburgh, and Whitstable Medical Practice, Kent  |  Editor: Dr Mark Levy, Kingsbury, London

This COPD National Strategy Quick Reference Guide is provided to you by the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK)
and is an interpretation of the document Consultation on a Strategy for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in England (February 2010) written by the Department of Health.
This Quick Reference Guide has been supported by an educational grant from Allen & Hanburys,
the specialist respiratory division of GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca UK Ltd and Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd/Pfizer Ltd.
The views expressed in the materials are not necessarily those of either the Department of Health, the sponsors or the Primary Care Respiratory Society UK (PCRS-UK). © PCRS-UK
Introduction  |  Prevention & awareness  |  Identification & diagnosis  |  Chronic care  |  Acute care  |  Self care  |  End-of-Life care  |  Asthma  |  Implementing the strategy
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