National COPD Audit Programme primary care 2015-2017 audit
Source: data.gov.uk (2018-03-01)

Making clinical audit data transparent 

In his transparency and open data letter to Cabinet Ministers on 7 July 2011, the Prime Minister restated the commitment to make clinical audit data available from the national audits within the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme.

The National COPD Audit Programme have made their data available for this purpose.

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