Hospital Beds: Coronavirus

(asked on 8th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase NHS hospital capacity to manage the projected increase in patients with covid-19 during autumn 2020 and winter 2020-21.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 17th June 2020

The possibility of a second surge in COVID-19 cases means that we cannot afford to relax our commitment to provide whatever the National Health Service needs to tackle COVID-19. We continue to work closely with the NHS and partners on the capacity needed for the next period and guidance has already been issued to the NHS on the process of starting to restore urgent non-COVID-19 services in a safe way, whilst ensuring surge capacity can be stood up again should it be needed.

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