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Hospitals: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential relationship between A&E waiting times and the prevalence of corridor care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
8 Jul 2026
Answer
13 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential relationship between A&E waiting times and the prevalence of corridor care.

  2. 8 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    NHS England introduced a national definition of corridor care and began publishing validated corridor care data for the first time on 11 June 2026. Prior to this, there was no nationally validated dataset that would allow trends in corridor care to be con...

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