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Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends since 2021 in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in Accident and Emergency departments.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
2 Mar 2026
Answer
23 Mar 2026 · 26 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends since 2021 in the number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in Accident and Emergency departments.

  2. 2 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 23 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    No such assessment has been made. NHS England began publishing data on number of patients waiting more than 12 hours in accident and emergency (A&E) departments in February 2023. The data is available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/s...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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