Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 82775

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

Tabled: 16 October 2025
Answered: 27 October 2025

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Conservative — Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of the use of temporary escalation spaces in the NHS.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Government is determined to get the National Health Service back on its feet, so patients can be treated with dignity.  We are therefore doing everything we can as fast as we can to consign the delivery of care in temporary escalation spaces to the hi...
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