Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional support his Department is planning to provide to Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust during winter 2017.

NHS Improvement and NHS England are working closely with Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust to ensure it is best placed to deal with challenges this winter. This includes working together with local commissioners within the Accident and Emergency Delivery Board to ensure services are responsive to patient need, and providing support should specific services experience particular pressure. To this end, NHS England and NHS Improvement lead a regular joint meeting with local system partners.

In addition, and in agreement with local organisations, the Emergency Care Improvement Programme team works to support the local health economy. This support is currently deployed on two fronts: one across the system, looking at frailty and discharge, and another focusing on optimising working models of hospital care within the trust itself.