David Lammy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which hospitals are listed as being supported by the Emergency Care Intensive Support Team.

Ben Gummer

The Emergency Care Intensive Support Team (ECIST) is focused on helping 27 urgent and emergency care systems across England that are under the most pressure to deliver real improvements in quality, safety and patient flow. ECIST is also resourced to provide expert input to the eight urgent and emergency care vanguards.

Since April 2016, the team has offered limited improvement support to a small group of trusts at the request of NHS Improvement regional teams.