Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 17437

Hospitals: Merseyside

Tabled: 9 July 2026
Answered: 16 July 2026
Named Day

Question

Ian Byrne

LabourLiverpool West Derby

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of corridor care in NHS hospital trusts serving Merseyside; and what support is being provided to those trusts to reduce the use of inappro

Answer

Karin Smyth
NHS England now publishes trust-level corridor care data as part of its regular NHS Performance Statistics Publication. As this is a new dataset, it is currently designated as Statistics in Development while data quality and completeness continue to impro...

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