Question follow-through · 105059
Hospitals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set a definition of corridor care.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will set a definition of corridor care.
14 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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22 Jan 2026
Answer published
The provision of clinical care in corridors is unacceptable, and we are committed to ending its practice in the National Health Service. Furthermore, our Urgent and Emergency Care Plan for 2025/26 commits to publishing data on the prevalence of corridor c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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