Question follow-through · 10380
Hospitals: Discharges
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of delayed hospital discharges on NHS capacity.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 6 Jul 2026 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of delayed hospital discharges on NHS capacity.
18 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Jul 2026
Answer published
NHS England publishes monthly data on the number of patients who remain in hospitals beds but no longer meet the clinical criteria to reside. Prompt hospital discharge is important to ensure better health outcomes for patients and avoid unnecessary decond...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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