Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of the use of temporary escalation spaces in the NHS.
Answered by Karin Smyth
The Government is determined to get the National Health Service back on its feet, so patients can be treated with dignity. We are therefore doing everything we can as fast as we can to consign the delivery of care in temporary escalation spaces to the history books.
Our Urgent and Emergency Care Plan, published in June 2025, set out the steps we are taking to ensure that patients will receive better, faster, and more appropriate emergency care this winter, backed by a total of nearly £450 million of funding. This includes a commitment to publish data on the prevalence of corridor care.
NHS England publishes monthly data on accident and emergency performance. This includes information on those accident and emergency attendances that are 12 hours or longer for type 1 and 2 accident and emergency providers. A copy of the latest data publication is attached.
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