Question follow-through · 12061
Heartlands Hospital: Ambulance Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average ambulance handover time was at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital A&E in (a) 2024-25 and (b) the most recent quarter for which data is available.
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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, what the average ambulance handover time was at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital A&E in (a) 2024-25 and (b) the most recent quarter for which data is available.
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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29 Jun 2026
Answer published
Ambulance handover performance is not published at a hospital level. NHS England does publish data on handover delays at a National Health Service trust level. Birmingham Heartlands Hospital is part of the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Tr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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