Question follow-through · 91783
Hospitals
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the time taken to discharge patients costs the NHS each year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 25 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the time taken to discharge patients costs the NHS each year.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department does not hold data on the annual cost of discharge delays. However, from September 2025, NHS England has started to publish data on the cost of discharge. This information is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/statis...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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