PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Coronavirus (12 January 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to maximise NHS capacity and help increase the NHS’s resilience during the covid-19 outbreak.
Asked by:
Dr Kieran Mullan (Conservative)
Asked by:
Dr Kieran Mullan (Conservative)
Answer
The National Health Service is ensuring that all medically fit patients are discharged to increase bed capacity, using non-acute beds in local systems and the independent sector, and expanding the use of ‘virtual wards’ to care for patients safely at home. Nightingale hubs are also under construction to deliver up to an additional 4,000 beds, should they be needed.
Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
19 January 2022
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