Hospitals: Standards
2026-07-05 · Department of Health and Social Care · 16150 · Official question
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential relationship between A&E waiting times and the prevalence 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...