Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the statement made by Daren Mochrie of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives in oral evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee on 20 December 2022 that NHS England is working on a revised or a new urgent and emergency care strategy, what the scope of that strategy is; and what he expects it will achieve.

NHS England will publish its urgent and emergency care recovery plan in early 2023. These plans will set out detailed ambitions for recovery to deliver improved ambulance response times for Category 2 incidents to 30 minutes on average over 2023/24, with further improvement towards pre-pandemic levels in 2024/25 and year-on-year improvements in Accident and Emergency waiting times over 2023/24 and 2024/25.

The Recovery Plan is the focus of NHS England’s strategy work at the current time. We will continue to consider the longer-term strategy for Urgent and Emergency Care in the light of this document and progress in delivering against it.