Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government which NHS regions have had to transfer patients to Nightingale hospitals due to a lack of critical care beds in non-Nightingale hospitals; and when such transfers had to occur.

Availability of critical care beds in response to COVID-19 is being managed on a national and regional level. Nightingale hospitals were designed specifically to treat patients with COVID-19.

Critical care capacity has been increased to ensure the National Health Service can provide effective and appropriate care to patients critically ill with COVID-19, while also keeping other critically ill patients safe from infection.