Question follow-through · 17438
Hospitals: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that commitments to end corridor care are supported by sufficient NHS bed capacity, safe staffing levels, ambulance handover improvements, social care
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jul 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that commitments to end corridor care are supported by sufficient NHS bed capacity, safe staffing levels, ambulance handover improvements, social care
16 Jul 2026
Target answer date
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16 Jul 2026
Answer published
We recognise that corridor care is unacceptable and should not become a normal part of National Health Service care. It reflects pressure across the whole urgent and emergency care pathway, including in hospitals and across wider health and care services....
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Surrogacy
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