Question follow-through · 28859

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients being treated in temporary care environments.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 4 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 6 Feb 2025
Answer: 10 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients being treated in temporary care environments.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government is clear that patients should expect and receive the highest standard of service, and is determined to tackle the issue of corridor care.On 30 January, we published Road to recovery: the government's 2025 mandate to NHS England, which set o...

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