Health Services: Surrey Heath
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support access to healthcare services during winter in Surrey Heath constituency.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The National Health Service is already preparing for winter this year with the development and better testing of winter plans. This includes the surge capacity and escalation plans in place across urgent and emergency care services.
Further details of the actions being taken to support patient access to services this winter are set out in the Urgent and Emergency Care plan for 2025/26, which is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/urgent-and-emergency-care-plan-2025-26/
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