Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81052

Hospitals: Standards

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 22 October 2025

Question

Gregory Stafford

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 Smyth

We are doing everything we can as fast as we can to tackle and eliminate corridor care. The Government is determined to get the National Health Service back on its feet, so patients can be treated with dignity. Our Urgent and Emergency Care Plan, publishe...

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