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Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

Asked by Dr Simon OpherLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 9 April 2025UIN 39602

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of publishing year-round data on the number of patients being treated in temporary care environments.

Answered by Karin Smyth

We continue to keep the data available and published to support improvements to urgent and emergency care services under review.

NHS England has been working with trusts since last year to put in place new reporting arrangements related to the use of temporary escalation spaces, to drive improvement. Subject to a review of data quality this information will be published later in 2025 and we will consider how this data could be published on a more regular basis.

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