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Hospitals: Standards

Commons · Question 81052 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 22 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by 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

Answered by Karin Smyth, 22 Oct 2025

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...