NHS: Stoke on Trent

(asked on 16th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase NHS capacity in Stoke-on-Trent.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 8th April 2022

The Department has provided the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust with £4.1 million from the Elective Recovery Targeted Investment Fund in 2021/22, for investment in the estate and digital initiatives to aid elective recovery through efficiency and reconfiguration. The Trust also received £7.5 million in 2020/21 for the Royal Stoke University Hospital to eradicate backlogs and £17.6 million to improve capacity and patient flow, including through the creation of a new 26 bed acute inpatient ward at Royal Stoke University Hospital.

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