Written questions

Community Hospitals: Older People

Commons · Question 78090 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 29 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the seasonality of demand patterns for community hospital beds for elderly people in the last three years.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 29 Oct 2025

Our 10-Year Health Plan sets out our vision for a neighbourhood health service that will embody our new preventative principle that care should happen as locally as it can: digitally by default, in a patient’s home, if possible, in a neighbourhood health ...