Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department’s elective recovery plan will include details on how hospital bed and surgical capacity should be prioritised to ensure the continuation of trauma and orthopaedic operations throughout the winter period.
The focus of the elective recovery plan will be primarily on 2022/2023 to 2024/25 and will not include details of prioritisation for this winter.
The National Health Service has enacted their winter operating model from 1 November, which is available at the following link: