Whipps Cross University Hospital: Floods
(asked on 19th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the (a) cost and (b) impact on patient care of the flooding at Whipps Cross Hospital in July 2021.
This question was answered on 4th November 2021
Whips Cross Hospital is part of the Barts Health NHS Trust. The Trust estimates that the costs related to the flooding disruption were £1 million, with the majority claimed back via insurance. The Trust estimates the number of elective and day case patients they were unable to treat as approximately 400. These patients have been rebooked for a later date.