Health Secretary pledges urgent action to end corridor care for children

Summarised from 3 outlets · Updated 18 Oct, 11:43 · Archive

The Health Secretary has pledged urgent action to eliminate the treatment of children in NHS hospital corridors.

Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has pledged urgent action to eliminate 'corridor care' for children in NHS hospitals. Speaking on the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, she said she has asked the chief executive of NHS England to draw up new standards for how children should be treated in A&E and create an urgent plan to eliminate corridor care for young patients as a priority. She stated: 'No child should be treated in a corridor.'

The government had started collecting figures on corridor care broadly this summer, but will now begin gathering data specifically on when children are treated in corridors. Ms Cooper said: 'We've got a plan for the whole of the Parliament to end corridor care more broadly, but then also to prioritise that and to do so urgently for children.'

NHS figures show that corridor care has been rising. The number of people waiting more than 12 hours in A&E departments in England from a decision to admit to actual admission stood at 50,582 in September, up from 44,951 in August. An average of 3,310 patients in England received corridor care each day in September, with 2,549 in A&E departments and 761 in other hospital areas, up from an average of 2,865 per day in August.

How it is being reported

• Yvette Cooper vows to end NHS corridor care for children as she apologises after toddler's tragic deathHealth Secretary Yvette Cooper apologised to Finlay Roberts’s parents for their 'unimaginable' experience after their two-year-old son died after nine hours in a hospital corridorThe Mirror · 18 Oct, 11:53
• Health secretary vows to end ‘corridor care’ for children in hospitalsMs Cooper also said child health needs to be ‘a much greater priority for the NHS’The Independent · 18 Oct, 11:19
• Health Secretary pledges action to end ‘corridor care’ for children in hospitalsThe Health Secretary had earlier warned that the NHS faces a more challenging winter than normal.Evening Standard · 18 Oct, 10:55

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