Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to improve patient safety at North Middlesex Hospital.

NHS Improvement is taking a number of actions to support North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust to improve patient safety including enhanced oversight, the introduction of an Emergency Care Improvement Programme, regular clinical quality and incident reporting site visits and the provision of challenged provider funding. An Improvement Director and peer support is also being arranged.

In addition, North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust will be given a bespoke action plan from NHS Improvement, with the expectation that during winter the Trust will deliver month on month improvements on the percentage of patients seen within the four hour accident and emergency access target.