Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80506
Hospitals: Standards
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 22 October 2025
Question
Alex Easton
Independent — North Down
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent patients being treated in (a) corridors, (b) converted office spaces, (c) gyms and (d) other inappropriate spaces in winter 2025-26.
Answer
Karin SmythWe are doing everything we can as fast as we can to eliminate corridor care. The Government is determined to get the National Health Service back on its feet, so that patients can be treated with dignity.Our Urgent and Emergency Care Plan, published in Ju...
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