Is the Minister aware that there is a serious Crisis in Accident and Emergency Departments in Redbridge and Waltham Forest health authority, that Whipps Cross hospital closed on 14 November and told doctors not to send people there, that King George hospital has regularly told ambulances to go away, and that some of my constituents have had to wait on trolleys for 10, 12, 14 or, in one case, 24 hours?
Last winter there was a Crisis in the Accident and Emergency Departments, not only in Redbridge but in neighbouring hospitals throughout north-east London and Essex.
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on what evidence he has to show how his plans to change GP services will solve the current Crisis in Accident and Emergency Departments.
We have seen that manifested at the coal face, the fulcrum, in the Crisis in Accident and Emergency Departments.
We have just had an urgent question on the Crisis in Accident and Emergency Departments.
We have called this debate today to see if we can establish a shared analysis across the House of the causes of the current Crisis in Accident and Emergency Departments, and from that, shared solutions.
It is commonly assumed that the Crisis in Our Accident and Emergency Departments is caused by new migrants not actually registering with their GPs at all, but going straight to A&E whenever something goes wrong, thus clogging up the system for everyone else.