Respiratory Diseases: Health Services

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Acute Respiratory Infection hubs were operating in winter 2022-23; and how many are planned to be operating in winter 2023-24.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 7th December 2023

During winter 2022/23, 363 Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) hubs were implemented by systems. There is no central target on ARI hubs for 2023/24 and for local systems to implement and decide where and how many as part of their plans locally this winter.

Evaluations from NHS England suggest that ARI hubs may save general practitioner appointments and accident and emergency attendances.

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