Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made on embedding the Same Day Emergency Care model in (a) medical and (b) surgical specialities in each NHS hospital during 2019-20; and if he will make a statement.

As set out in the NHS Long Term Plan, an Implementation Framework will be published shortly which will set out the next steps the National Health Service will take to deliver the commitments and the national activity and support available to systems. The Implementation Framework will assist local health systems, who will build on the engagement already taking place across the country, in developing their strategic Long Term Plan implementation plan over the summer. NHS England and Improvement will then publish a national implementation plan in the autumn.

The Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Hospitals Programme team conducted a review in December and January 2019 on the progress that Hospitals had made with implementing SDEC services where they had a Type 1 emergency department.

In February 2019, across England 92% of trusts had a SDEC service, 71% were open every day, 65% of those that had a service were open 12 hours a day when they were open.