Community Hospitals
(asked on 7th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information (a) his Department and (b) NHS England holds on plans for community hospitals to relieve pressures on acute hospitals over the winter 2016 period.
This question was answered on 15th December 2016
Community care providers are part of their local A&E Delivery Boards. These Boards have developed comprehensive plans to manage winter pressures across all sectors of their local health economies and ensure patient flow along the urgent care pathway is as smooth as possible.