Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to create a real-time intensive care dashboard to provide a review of bed occupancy and staffing levels.

NHS England already collects daily information from acute trusts on bed availability, including adult and paediatric critical care and neonatal critical care, through the urgent and emergency care daily situation report. This reflects the position on the day of reporting and is available via operational dashboards in the Federated Data Platform.

Workforce information is available through existing systems such as the Electronic Staff Record which reflects staff employed rather than being collected on a real time basis. The Government does not currently have plans to create a real time intensive care dashboard covering staffing levels.