NHS: Repairs and Maintenance
(asked on 6th September 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the recent trends in the NHS high-risk maintenance backlog; and what steps he is taking to tackle that backlog.
The Department collects data on backlog maintenance (the capital investment needed to bring the estate and facilities to an appropriate standard for quality and safety) annually from National Health Service trusts through its Estates Returns Information Collection. The data collected is not amended centrally and its accuracy always remains the responsibility of the contributing NHS organisations. It can be found at:
NHS organisations use a risk-based methodology to categorise backlog maintenance. This allows any high risk elements related to health and safety to be prioritised by trusts for urgent attention, whilst investment to eradicate lower priority backlog can be timed so that any disruption to clinical services caused by the building works is minimised.