COPD Guidelines: The COPD-X planCOPD-X V2.78, December 2025Lung Foundation Australia’s COPD Guidelines Committee, manages the co-branded Lung Foundation and Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand’s, “The COPD-X Plan: Australian and New Zealand guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease”. To ensure you stay up-to-date with these guidelines, register below.
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A new chapter for COPD-X
Lung Foundation Australia and the COPD-X Committee are embarking on a major improvement initiative. Following stakeholder consultation and in response to advances in digital health, we’re reviewing how the guidelines are structured, updated, and shared with clinicians.
To support this, we’ve temporarily paused our regular evidence surveillance cycle. This allows us to focus on:
• Enhancing the structure and evidence synthesis methods
• Exploring modular, flexible formats for guidance
• Understanding how clinicians’ access and apply COPD-X in practice
This is part of a long-term vision to ensure COPD-X remains responsive, practical, and useful for clinicians across all settings.
COPD-X evidence reviews and updates will occur less frequently during this transition.
Help Shape the Future of COPD-X
Keen to contribute to COPD-X V3.0?
We’re inviting clinicians, researchers, and stakeholders to share their perspectives. Expressions of interest are now open forindividual contributorsand stakeholder representativesin Australia. If you have experience, knowledge or interest in COPD, guideline developmentor healthcare implementation, we would love to hear from you.