To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of preventable deaths in the NHS that (a) occurred in the last 12 months and (b) are forecasted to occur due to (i) winter pressures, (ii) NHS waiting list backlogs and (iii) ambulance delays in the next 12 months.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
22 November 2022
There are no plans to make a specific estimate.
While an analysis of excess deaths at a population level compared with the period before the pandemic is available, this is not a measure of the number of current deaths which may be preventable. There is no direct connection between observed numbers of excess deaths and measures of National Health Service performance.