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Ending corridor care in hospitals for children will be a priority, says health secretary
No patient should be treated in a corridor, Yvette Cooper says
The NHS must take urgent action to stop children receiving treatment in hospital corridors, Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has told the BBC.
Cooper told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg she has asked NHS England to draw up urgent plans to eliminate what is known as "corridor care" for children as a priority, and to introduce new standards for how children should be treated at A&E.
It comes after more than a dozen health groups urged the health secretary to take action to end corridor care.
The number of people waiting more than 12 hours in A&E departments from a decision to admit to actually being admitted stood at 50,582 in September, up from 44,951 in August.
Cooper said the way this data is collected will be changed to have the number of children included in the figures.
"I'm clear that child health needs to be a much greater priority for the NHS," says Cooper.
The government has an aim of ending corridor care more broadly by the end of this parliament, she added.
Kuenssberg highlighted the case of Finlay Roberts, a two-year-old boy who died in 2024 after spending the final hours of his life in a crowded A&E corridor.
Finlay's father David Roberts told the BBC the situation was a "terrible mess", with the family briefly moved into a room with a bed before being moved back into the corridor.