Question follow-through · 12058
Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many A&E departments are regularly treating patients in corridors; and what steps he is taking to help end this practice.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many A&E departments are regularly treating patients in corridors; and what steps he is taking to help end this practice.
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jun 2026
Answer published
NHS England began publishing validated corridor care data for the first time on 11 June 2026. The data is published at a trust level and therefore does not identify how many individual accident and emergency departments are regularly treating patients in ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Accident and Emergency Departments
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