Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve diagnosis rates for patients with respiratory illnesses other than covid-19.

The National Health Service will build on the existing RightCare programme to reduce variation in the quality of spirometry testing. The Accelerated Access Collaborative is launching fractional exhaled nitric oxide testing to improve diagnosis of asthma. Targeted lung health checks are available to diagnose cancer and identify respiratory conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We have also announced £2.3 billion to increase the number of community diagnostic centres to provide access to physiological and imaging tests for the diagnosis of respiratory illnesses.