Question follow-through · 61591
Accident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the NHS of patient transfers from ambulance to A&E taking longer than 15 minutes in each of the last five financial years.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the NHS of patient transfers from ambulance to A&E taking longer than 15 minutes in each of the last five financial years.
25 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Jun 2025
Answer published
No estimate is currently planned. The Government recognises the pressures on the National Health Service and the impact this is having on ambulance response times, including in Shropshire.We are determined to turn things around, and our 10-Year Health Pla...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Dentistry: Recruitment
23 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS dental positions have been advertised under the NHS Golden Hello Scheme; and how many of those have been accepted, by (a) region and (b) month since February 2024.
Dentistry: Qualifications
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Dentistry: Registration
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Dentistry: North Shropshire
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Air Ambulance Services: Contracts
25 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many air ambulance organisations hold contracts with NHS organisations.
Children: Protection
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