Ambulance Services: Standards
Commons · Question 117451 · Tabled 3 Mar 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 13 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Helen Morgan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the number of year-on-year changes to hospital handover delays in (a) Shropshire (b) West Midlands and (c) England.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 13 Mar 2026
Shropshire is primarily served by the West Midlands Ambulance Service, along with the wider West Midlands region, where in January 2026 average hospital handovers took one hour, 20 minutes and 15 seconds, which is worse than the same period the year befor...