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Accident and Emergency Departments: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce accident and emergency waiting times in hospitals in the West Midlands.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Jul 2025
Target answer date
22 Jul 2025
Answer
25 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce accident and emergency waiting times in hospitals in the West Midlands.

  2. 22 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 25 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Government recognises that urgent and emergency care performance has fallen short in recent years and is committed to restoring accident and emergency waiting times to the National Health Service constitutional standard across England, including in th...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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