Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 101665

Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

Tabled: 18 December 2025

Answered: 5 January 2026

Question

Mr Lee Dillon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of patients waiting for longer than 12 hours in A&E.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Government recognises that urgent and emergency care performance has fallen short in recent years. We are committed to restoring accident and emergency waiting times to the NHS Constitutional standard.Provisional NHS England data for November 2025 sho...

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