Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with the (a) Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and (b) Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group on extending permanently the opening times of the urgent care centre at Chase Farm Hospital.

These issues are for National Health Service local determination based on clinical leadership.

The extended opening hours were introduced on 5 January 2015 as a pilot and that Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group is currently undertaking a wider review of local urgent care services. NHS England is committed to continuing to fund the extended opening hours of the urgent care centre until the urgent care review in Enfield is completed.