Accident and Emergency Departments: North West

(asked on 17th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce A&E waiting times in (a) Lancashire and( b) Merseyside.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 24th January 2023

A range of measures are in place to reduce accident and emergency waiting times, including in Lancashire and Merseyside. The National Health Service winter resilience plan will increase NHS bed capacity by the equivalent of at least 7,000 general and acute beds, helping reduce crowding and long waits for admission from accident and emergency. Our plan for patients announced a £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund, helping people get out of hospitals quickly, freeing up beds and reducing long accident and emergency waits. We are now investing a further £200 million to speed up patient discharge, through direct support to local areas buying thousands of extra beds in care homes and other settings.

The Autumn Statement provides an additional £3.3 billion of NHS funding in both 2023/24 and 2024/25 to enable rapid action to improve urgent and emergency, elective, and primary care performance towards pre-pandemic levels. In the coming weeks the NHS will set out detailed recovery plans to deliver year-on-year improvements in accident and emergency waiting times.

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