Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what additional support his Department plans to provide to Oxford University Hospital's NHS Foundation Trust during winter 2017.

NHS Improvement and NHS England are working closely with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to ensure it is best placed to deal with challenges this winter. This includes working together with local commissioners to ensure services are responsive to patient need and providing support should specific services experience particular pressure. To this end, NHS England and NHS Improvement attend regular joint meetings with local system partners.

In addition, the Emergency Care Improvement Programme team is working to support the local health economy. This includes actions to improve patient flow and urgent care services.