Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 29 June 2017 to Question 822, on accident and emergency departments, what progress is being made on introducing front-door clinical streaming in accident and emergency departments by October 2017.

£100 million of capital funding has been made available for primary care streaming in accident and emergency departments. This was confirmed in the budget statement of 8 March 2017. Since then 117 sites across 102 trusts have been successful in bidding for this funding, with a total of £90,857,030 million allocated. Each of these trusts has confirmed that this will add or increase capacity for clinical streaming, or improve patient flow through the emergency department. NHS England and NHS Improvement remain committed to have primary care streaming, or an equivalent local model, in all emergency departments by October 2017 and will monitor both the implementation and impact of streaming thereafter.