Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to resume publication of the paused (a) Critical Care Bed Capacity and Urgent Operations Cancelled and (b) Delayed Transfers of Care data set.

Information on critical care bed numbers and occupancy has been published by NHS England from Thursday 24 November as part of a weekly summary of the Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports.

The Critical Care Bed Capacity and Urgent Operations Cancelled data collection was paused, along with other official statistics, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the need to release capacity across the National Health Service to support the response. NHS England will keep the paused collections under review to establish at which point further collections should be reinstated and update published information when the status of any of the collections change.

The quarterly Cancelled Elective Operations official statistics publication has resumed, and data for Q2 2022-23 last published on 10^th November.

Data on hospital discharges is now collected through the acute daily discharge sitrep and is published monthly. These reports can be found at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/