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1545596

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date	25/11/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the impact of increased waiting times in accident and emergency departments on patient safety.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	96642
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2022 answer text <p>With NHS England, we are increasing bed capacity and operational resilience with the equivalent of 7,000 additional beds and a £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to ensure medically fit patients can safely return home and reducing waiting times in accident and emergency.</p><p>We are also investing an additional £3.3 billion in 2023/24 and 2024/25 to return urgent and emergency, elective and primary care services to pre-pandemic levels. The National Health Service will publish recovery plans for urgent and emergency care in the new year.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 05/12/2022 15:47:16 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1537834

registered interest
date	31/10/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to support the reduction of Accident and Emergency waiting times.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	74862
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/11/2022 answer text <p>The National Health Service is increasing bed capacity for winter 2022/23 by the equivalent of at least 7,000 general and acute beds to reduce waiting times for admission from accident and emergency (A&amp;E).</p><p>We have established a £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund to assist medically fit patients to leave hospitals quickly, increase bed capacity and reduce waiting times in A&amp;E. This is in addition to the National Discharge Taskforce which aims to reduce delayed discharge across acute, mental health and community care settings by working with social care partners to implement best practice. We are also preparing for variants of COVID-19 and seasonal respiratory illnesses through an integrated COVID-19 booster and flu vaccination programme.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 08/11/2022 15:48:04 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1489318

registered interest
date	14/07/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the four-hour performance was at major Emergency Departments in June 2022.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	36860
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>In June 2022, 58.8% of patients attending a type 1 or major accident and emergency department were admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of arrival.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 21/07/2022 16:09:55 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1466469

registered interest
date	26/05/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he taken to ensure patient safety in the context of recent pressures on the urgent and emergency care system.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	9986
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2022 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement monitor patient safety and work with systems to manage any potential risks. In 2022/23, an additional £50 million has been invested in NHS 111 to support increased call taking capacity and ensure that patients can access urgent care when necessary. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with integrated care boards to improve patient flow and reduce ambulance handover delays, maximising Same Day Emergency Care services and access to Urgent Treatment Centres as an alternative to accident and emergency where appropriate.</p><p>In Slough, funding for 17 intermediate adult social care beds has been extended to June 2022 and an additional 20 bed community ward at Heathlands Heathwood Hospital has been created. An immediate ambulance handover policy is also in place at hospitals in Slough and capacity to accept paramedic handovers increased by 30%.</p><p>In the South East, Urgent Treatment Centres and Same Day Emergency Care provision is being developed to ensure alternatives to emergency departments are available at acute sites. This is addition to engaging system partners to alleviate pressures through urgent community response, developing virtual wards, enhanced health care in care homes and bringing together local health systems to reduce length of stay and increase discharges.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar grouped question UIN 9987 question first answered 16/06/2022 15:31:29 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 4675 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi