Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what safeguards are in place to ensure that urgent care services are not overburdened where services are centralised.

All service change should be led by local organisations and clinicians, and be in the best interests of patients.

National Health Service commissioners and providers should work together, with local authorities, patients and the public, in bringing forward proposals that will improve the quality and sustainability of healthcare services.