PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Disability: Health Services (1 March 2021)

NHS England and Improvement published guidance regarding the restoration of NHS services ‘Third phase of NHS response to COVID-19’ on 31 July 2020. On 7 August 2020 they published further guidance ‘Implementing phase 3 of the NHS response to the COVID-19 pandemic’. The guidance makes clear that a central part of responding to COVID-19 and restoring services must be to address inequalities in National Health Service provision, including improving access for disabled people. NHS England and NHS Improvement have commissioned a national advisory group of leaders from within and beyond the NHS to advise on how to achieve these aims in the coming months. This group has identified eight urgent actions, two of which are to protect the most vulnerable from COVID-19 and to restore NHS services inclusively.