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Accident and Emergency Departments

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 28426, tabled on 30 June 2022

Question

Margaret Greenwood
Labour
Wirral West
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Answer of 6 September 2021 to Question 38295 on Accident and Emergency Departments, whether integrated care boards' (ICB) core responsibilities will have been expanded to ensure that each ICB is responsible for everyone in its area who needs emergency care as of 1 July 2022.

Answer

Edward Argar
Conservative
Charnwood
Commons

Answered on

5 July 2022

The National Health Service (Integrated Care Boards: Exceptions to Core Responsibility) Regulations 2022” imposes additional responsibilities on an integrated care board (ICB) for certain specified persons. The instrument sets out circumstances where an ICB would have additional responsibility for commissioning health services for certain individuals, in addition to the persons where it has core responsibility. The circumstances include commissioning emergency ambulance services or accident and emergency services for any person present within the ICBs’ area.

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