Question follow-through · 78858
Hospital Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support trusts to reduce bed occupancy to below 80% ahead of winter 2025-26.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 22 Oct 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support trusts to reduce bed occupancy to below 80% ahead of winter 2025-26.
14 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Oct 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service is already preparing for winter this year with the development and testing of winter plans. This includes the surge capacity and escalation plans in place across all NHS and urgent care services.The Urgent and Emergency Care Pl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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