Question follow-through · 90844
Hospital Beds
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of medically fit patients occupying hospital beds due to delayed discharges.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of medically fit patients occupying hospital beds due to delayed discharges.
17 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to tackling delayed discharges.The policy framework for the £9 billion Better Care Fund, published in January 2025, gives the National Health Service and local authorities accountability for setting and achieving joint goals fo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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