Helen Jones – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Helen Jones on 2016-02-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the reasons for activation of the full capacity protocol at Warrington Hospital’s A&E department in 2015-16; and what effect (a) inability to access GP appointments and (b) reductions in the availability of social care had on the decision to activate that protocol in each such case.
Jane Ellison
It is for the local National Health Service to manage accident and emergency services to ensure access to high quality, safe services for their local populations.
We are making additional resources available to the NHS to deal with increased demand, by backing the NHS Five Year Forward View with £10 billion a year real terms additional funding by 2020-21, compared to 2014-15, with £3.8 billion real terms growth in 2016-17.
Information on ambulance handovers delayed over 30 minutes was published by NHS England in winter daily situation reports each weekday during winter from 2010-11 to 2014-15. Such information is not being published by the NHS in winter daily situation reports for 2015-16. The data can be found using the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/
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