Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the availability of Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation beds in the NHS in England.

NHS England commissions both adult and paediatric respiratory Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation services from five designated centres. NHS England actively monitors bed capacity and, in periods of high demand, capacity can be increased in line with an agreed standard operating procedure. The standard operating procedure is available on the NHS England website via the link below:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/ccs/