Hospital Beds: Coronavirus

(asked on 13th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether projected winter bed capacity in NHS hospitals is a criterion in determining the lockdown easement strategy.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 20th May 2020

The National Health Service currently has sufficient capacity to meet current demand.

A key priority for the Government is to continue to ensure that NHS capacity is able to meet demand, including for winter.

The NHS is planning to retain their demonstrated ability to quickly repurpose and ‘surge’ capacity locally and regionally, if and when it should be needed.

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