Question follow-through · 43126

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 treated in temporary care environments.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
1 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
7 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 1 Apr 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 treated in temporary care environments.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 7 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    We continue to keep the data available and published to support improvements to urgent and emergency care services under review.NHS England has been working with trusts since 2024 to put in place new reporting arrangements related to the use of temporary ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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