Hospitals: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Oral Statement of 15 January 2025 on Winter Update, if he will publish a list of the locations of the 24 critical incidents declared in the week of 6 January 2025.
Answered by Karin Smyth
On 7 January 2025, there were a total of 24 active critical incidents reported, as referenced by my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in his oral statement of 15 January 2025. The following table shows a list of the 24 National Health Service organisations where the critical incidents were declared:
NHS organisation |
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust |
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust |
NHS England East of England Region |
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust |
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust |
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust |
Torbay & South Devon NHS Foundation Trust |
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust |
NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board |
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust |
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board |
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust |
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust |
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust |
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
NHS Devon Integrated Care Board |
As of 21 January 2025, 23 of the critical incidents declared above have been stood down. Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust remains active. University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Foundation Trust also declared a critical incident on this date but stood down the next day.
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