Hospitals (Winter Demand)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 13 January 2015.

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Photo of Chloe Smith Chloe Smith Conservative, Norwich North 11:30, 13 January 2015

The Norfolk and Norwich university hospital has declared a major incident and is also being examined by Monitor for its waiting times. Its medical director stresses that services are safe, but we all know that there is a need to ensure that people can move on from hospitals into other parts of the health care system. Can my right hon. Friend reassure me that he would expect the use of the resources he has provided to be jointly planned out with social care?