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Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the efficiency (a) rural and (b) urban hospitals; and how many hospitals in each of those categories are within the top quarter most efficient hospitals.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 2 Sept 2025
Target answer date: 8 Sept 2025
Answer: 12 Sept 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

2 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the efficiency (a) rural and (b) urban hospitals; and how many hospitals in each of those categories are within the top quarter most efficient hospitals.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
As part of the 2025/26 planning process, all National Health Service organisations were required to set efficiency and savings targets necessary to achieve a balanced financial position. These targets are publicly available in hospital board reports. The ...

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