Intensive Care: Greater London

(asked on 19th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people admitted to NHS Trust intensive care units in London in each week since February 1 2020.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 27th March 2020

The number of people admitted to National Health Service trust intensive care units in London and the Midlands in each week since February 1 2020 is not available in the format requested.

NHS England and NHS Improvement collect and publish weekly sitreps data over winter from acute trusts with a type 1 accident and emergency department. This includes critical care bed numbers and occupancy rates:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/winter-daily-sitreps/winter-daily-sitrep-2019-20-data/

The NHS is working hard to support critically ill patients during the COVID-19 epidemic. The Chancellor recently advised that the NHS will get the resources it needs to cope with a COVID-19 epidemic.

The NHS is currently scaling up intensive care beds and is working with independent sector providers to achieve this.

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