Written questions

Hospitals: Standards

2026-07-05 · Department of Health and Social Care · 16149 · Official question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of NHS England's definition of corridor care.

Answer

NHS England introduced a national definition of corridor care and began publishing validated corridor care data for the first time on 11 June 2026. Prior to this, there was no nationally validated dataset that would allow trends in corridor care to be con...