Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS intensive care units have (a) appropriate facilities and (b) adequate resources to help save the lives of patients worst affected by covid-19.
The Chancellor recently advised that the National Health Service will get the resources it needs to cope with a COVID-19 epidemic.
The NHS is currently scaling up intensive care beds. NHS England is looking at critical care capacity - including the availability of additional facilities of independent sector providers.