Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy on improving (a) accident and emergency service provision levels at Barnet and North Middlesex Hospital, (b) urgent care services at Chase Farm Hospital and (c) primary care provision in those boroughs; and if he will make a statement.

These are matters for the local National Health Service.

We are advised that following the implementation of the Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Clinical Strategy, emergency services at Barnet and North Middlesex University hospitals have been expanded and redeveloped. Over £100 million has been invested in the North Middlesex Hospital which now has one of the largest accident and emergency departments in London, and receives an average of 500 patients every 24 hours. Maternity services at Barnet and North Middlesex University hospitals have been expanded and redeveloped, with increased consultant cover and more midwives on labour wards. Antenatal and postnatal services are still available on the Chase Farm site.