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Hospitals: Merseyside

Commons · Question 17437 · Tabled 9 Jul 2026 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Jul 2026

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Asked by Ian Byrne

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the prevalence of corridor care in NHS hospital trusts serving Merseyside; and what support is being provided to those trusts to reduce the use of inappro

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 16 Jul 2026

NHS England now publishes trust-level corridor care data as part of its regular NHS Performance Statistics Publication. As this is a new dataset, it is currently designated as Statistics in Development while data quality and completeness continue to impro...