Patients: Safety
Commons · Question 84044 · Tabled 21 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 27 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Ben Maguire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how his Department guarantee safe services for patients when a Hospital Trust is regularly at OPEL 4.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 27 Oct 2025
The National Health Service’s operational pressures escalation levels (OPEL) framework provides a standardised approach to support an effective, integrated, and coordinated response to acute trust operational pressures. This includes the actions locally, ...