A&E corridor care

Early day motion 3101, tabled 13 April 2026 by Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 21 members.

That this House condemns the normalisation of corridor care in NHS hospitals; expresses alarm at recent reports of patients receiving end of life care in corridors; believes patients deserve better and should expect to receive care in privacy and with dignity; regrets that 2025 saw the worst level of 12 hour trolley-waits in A&E ever recorded; further notes that the Government are set to miss their own target of seeing 78% of patients within 4 hours by the end of March 2026; recognises this is affecting public confidence, with 67% of people now worried about long A&E waits; calls on the Government to end the national scandal of corridor care and save A&E departments from collapse; urges the Government to implement Liberal Democrat calls to end corridor care and the A&E crisis within a year by guaranteeing everyone can see a GP within seven days, or 24 hours if urgent, and by fixing the crisis in social care so that people can leave hospital when they are fit to do so; and further calls for a legal duty on the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to end 12-hour A&E waits by the end of the year.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 20, DUP 1.