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Today the Commission has published the first national standard to support better diagnosis and management of the condition – the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Clinical Care Standard.

2024
Publication or report

The 2024 APS employee census was undertaken between 6 May 2024 and 7 June 2024. As part of our commitment to making the Commission an even better place to work, we are implementing an agency-action plan to address areas where we can improve.

You are invited to participate in the Commission’s public consultation to review guidelines for critical results management of pathology and diagnostic imaging.

MEDIA RELEASE

One in 13 Australians over the age of 40 have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but alarmingly only half of them know they have it. 

Awareness of this incurable lung disease – which makes it difficult to breathe – lags considerably behind other serious chronic health conditions, despite COPD being a leading cause of avoidable hospitalisations.

2024
Publication or report

The Annual Report 2023-24 provides an overview of our performance, governance arrangements, organisational structure and financial statements for the past financial year.

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