ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors would like to thank the National COPD Resources and Outcome Project (NCROP) Executive Implementation Group for commissioning to write this editorial based on the findings of 2008 COPD RCP/BTS/BLF national audit. We also would like to thank Miss Nancy Pursey, National COPD Audit 2008 Acting Project Manager, Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Royal College of Physicians for her useful comments and suggestions. The authors are grateful to the Royal College of Physicians Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation unit NCROP team for the provision of data and reports that have contributed to this editorial. Further information on this work may be obtained from www.rcplondon.ac.uk/copd.
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PKM is a steering group member of NCROP.