Question follow-through · 84521

William Harvey Hospital: Accident and Emergency Departments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase support for the delivery of emergency care at the William Harvey Hospital.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
27 Oct 2025
Answer
27 Oct 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 22 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase support for the delivery of emergency care at the William Harvey Hospital.

  2. 27 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Oct 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 to support the d...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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