These are our top 10 web links for COPD

1. NICE Quality Standards

NICE standards of care for all patients with a diagnosis of COPD.

2. NICE

The new NICE COPD 2010 guidelines.

3. Outcomes strategy for COPD and Asthma

The national strategy for COPD from the DOH published at last!

4. Primary Care Respiratory Society

The primary care respiratory society. A valuable resource centre and network for everything respiratory. Hosts interesting documents regarding the National Strategy for COPD.

5. RCP COPD Audit Results

The National COPD Audit from the Royal College Of Physicians. The latest European COPD audit will be published later this year.

6. IMPRESS

IMPRESS is a joint initiative between the two leading respiratory clinical societies in the UK: the British Thoracic Society and the Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS)-UK.

9. ELF

Supplies downloadable factsheets for patients and health professionals on all respiratory topics.

10. SEPHO

This site allows access to public health documents in the local region e.g. COPD prevalence, rates of smoking etc. As well as the important BLF document and clinical indicators report.