Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of developing a national strategy for paediatric (a) intensive therapy units and (b) rehabilitative services.

The Department has no current plans to undertake such an assessment. Guidance on the delivery of paediatric critical care services is a matter for NHS England and the relevant professional bodies. Integrated Care Boards are responsible for the commissioning of paediatric rehabilitative services.

An NHS England review of paediatric critical care services was published in 2019, with a further National Specialty Report on Paediatric Critical Care produced in 2022.