Will the Minister list the times during the last 12 months that the Emergency Co-ordination Centre has been used in response to the pressure within the NHS?
I can confirm that ECCW has not been stood up in the last 12 months to support the response to NHS pressure.
ECCW will provide the Welsh Government level link into the UK Government Contingency arrangements led by Cabinet Office for an all-Wales Civil Contingency scenario; if we need to mobilise the health and/or care system for a civil contingency (flooding, fire, major incident) outside the planned pressures that we know will arise.
Pressures on the NHS are managed from within Health & Social Services through the Executive Director Team weekly Contingency meeting as part of their approach to planned pressures.