Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress he has made on using Nightingale hospital capacity to ensure that patients with covid-19 are treated in isolation.

The Nightingale hospitals remain available to support the National Health Service when needed, responding to local demand pressures. Local clinical leaders are working to determine how this is done whilst considering the needs of all patients requiring NHS care. Local clinical leaders will therefore determine the type and condition of patients that are appropriate to be cared for in the facility. The use of Nightingale sites is being kept under active review alongside the monitoring of COVID-19 hospital activity.