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Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients that have received clinical care in corridors or other non-designated clinical areas in NHS hospitals in the last year.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
21 Nov 2025
Target answer date
25 Nov 2025
Answer
2 Dec 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 21 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of patients that have received clinical care in corridors or other non-designated clinical areas in NHS hospitals in the last year.

  2. 25 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    The Government recognises that the practice of providing clinical care in corridors or other non-designated areas is unacceptable and is committed to eradicating it from our National Health Service.Our Urgent and Emergency Care Plan, published in June, se...

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