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Accident and Emergency Departments: Standards

Commons · Question 81263 · Tabled 13 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 17 Oct 2025

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Asked by Gregory Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that patients in emergency departments of hospitals are treated in appropriate spaces.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 17 Oct 2025

This 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, published in June 2025, set out steps that we are taking to ensure that patients will receive be...