World COPD Day Roundtable

On behalf of sponsor Marie McNair MSP, Asthma + Lung UK Scotland invites you to a roundtable discussion to mark World COPD Day 2025 on Wednesday 19 November, 1-2.30pm in Committee Room 1.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung condition affecting around 720,000 Scots that happens when your lungs become inflamed and damaged and your airways narrow. COPD makes it harder for air to move in and out of your lungs, so you become breathless.

Join people living with COPD, their carers and families, health charities, clinicians and key stakeholders to hear what life is like living with the lung condition, what can be done to improve care, treatment and self-management, and how to tackle the health inequalities associated with respiratory conditions like COPD.

Facilitated by Marie McNair MSP, attendees will have the chance to discuss their positive and negative experiences of being diagnosed with COPD, getting care and treatment and what support is needed for best self-management.

Agenda:

• Event starts 1pm
• Speaker 1 – Marie McNair MSP, sponsor
• Speaker 2 – Jenni Minto MSP, Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
• Speaker 3 – Dr Gourab Choudhury, COPD Clinical Lead
• Speaker 4 – Dr Matthew Saunders, Public Health Scotland
• Speaker 5 – Linda McLeod, Living with COPD
• Open discussion
• Closing remarks - Joseph Carter, Asthma + Lung UK
• Networking, Photography
• Event ends 2.30pm

Following the roundtable, Asthma + Lung UK Scotland will develop an action plan to support COPD diagnosis, care, treatment and self-management, with further input from patients and their families and carers.