Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 16150

Hospitals: Standards

Tabled: 6 July 2026
Answered: 13 July 2026

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

ConservativeFylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential relationship between A&E waiting times and the prevalence of corridor care.

Answer

Karin Smyth
NHS England introduced a national definition of corridor care and began publishing validated corridor care data for the first time on 11 June 2026. Prior to this, there was no nationally validated dataset that would allow trends in corridor care to be con...

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