Coronavirus: Merseyside

(asked on 3rd March 2020) - 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 ensure the adequate provision of intensive care beds in the event of an outbreak of covid-19 in (a) Merseyside, (b) Wirral and (c) Wallasey.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 9th March 2020

It is the Government’s priority that the National Health Service has appropriate equipment to respond to COVID-19, this includes the provision of intensive care beds. The Department working closely with NHS England and the devolved administrations to ensure this. The Government is monitoring the situation closely and are creating plans with the NHS for an increase in the cases of COVID-19.

The NHS remains prepared to respond to high consequence infectious diseases, including the response to the current outbreak of Covid-19. The NHS has tried and tested procedures to respond to infectious disease outbreaks many of which are used each year for seasonal flu.

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