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 bed capacity in University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

Bed availability and occupancy is managed at a local level. Hospitals have a responsibility in ensuring that they are operating with the necessary beds available to support effective patient flow and safety.

NHS England publishes quarterly information on the numbers of available and occupied beds open overnight or day only in all National Health Service organisations, most recently for quarter 3 of 2017-18. This data is available at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/bed-data-overnight/

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/bed-availability-and-occupancy/bed-data-day-only/