PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Surgery: Warwickshire (7 December 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of potential options for alleviating demands on NHS services to help maintain the provision of elective services in (a) Coventry and (b) Warwickshire in Winter 2020-21.

Asked by:
Taiwo Owatemi (Labour)

Extensive, system-wide measures have been put in place across Coventry and Warwickshire, to support patient flow through the acute hospitals and maintain elective services through winter, with a particular focus on:

- Extra care home capacity to support discharge from hospital;

- Additional acute capacity;

- Additional investment in primary care and mental health;

- Concentrating on enhanced discharge practises to maintain patient flow;

- 111 first pathway to divert patients from accident and emergency departments where appropriate and encourage use of services to seek help early to avoid need for admission; and

- Enhanced care home services.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
16 December 2020