Question follow-through · 3952
Accident and Emergency Departments: Greater Manchester
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle and reduce corridor care in accident and emergency departments in Greater Manchester.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 1 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle and reduce corridor care in accident and emergency departments in Greater Manchester.
1 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2026
Answer published
We recognise concerns about corridor care and are clear that it is not acceptable and should not be normalised. Corridor care is a visible symptom of wider pressures across urgent and emergency care, and we are committed to eliminating this practice.The G...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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