Queen's Hospital Romford: Accident and Emergency Departments
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department is providing to increase patient capacity in the Queen’s Hospital, Romford Accident and Emergency Department.
Answered by Karin Smyth
Operational matters, including decisions on local hospital capacity, are primarily matters for local National Health Service trusts working with NHS commissioners.
The NHS has supported increased patient demand for accident and emergency services by strengthening same day emergency care, supporting vaccination efforts for COVID-19, flu, and the respiratory syncytial virus, and increasing the provision of community services.
In addition, due to the action taken by the Government, this winter NHS hospitals are free of strikes and focused on caring for patients.
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