Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 61591

Accident and Emergency Departments and Ambulance Services

Tabled: 20 June 2025
Answered: 26 June 2025
Named Day

Question

Helen Morgan

Liberal DemocratNorth Shropshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the cost to the NHS of patient transfers from ambulance to A&E taking longer than 15 minutes in each of the last five financial years.

Answer

Karin Smyth
No estimate is currently planned. The Government recognises the pressures on the National Health Service and the impact this is having on ambulance response times, including in Shropshire.We are determined to turn things around, and our 10-Year Health Pla...

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