Question follow-through · 7599
Accident and Emergency Departments: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s report entitled The State of Emergency Medicine in England, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve patient safety and (b) red
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 15 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s report entitled The State of Emergency Medicine in England, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve patient safety and (b) red
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Government is committed to restoring urgent and emergency care waiting times to the standards set out in the NHS Constitution. The medium-term planning framework for the National Health Service published in October 2025 includes a commitment that 85% ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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