Cooper demands urgent standards for child A&E care

Health secretary Yvette Cooper told the BBC she asked NHS England's chief executive to draw up urgent new standards for treating children in A&E, with a priority plan to eliminate corridor care for children.

“No child should be treated in a corridor.”

Corridor care numbers rising sharply

In September, fifty thousand five hundred eighty-two people waited more than twelve hours in A&E departments in England from decision to admit to admission, up from forty-four thousand nine hundred fifty-one in August.

Daily corridor care patients increase

An average of three thousand three hundred ten patients in England received corridor care each day in September, up from two thousand eight hundred sixty-five per day in August, NHS figures show.

Cooper says child health is NHS sidecar

Cooper said child health needs to be a much greater priority for the NHS, saying maternity and child care has been treated as a bit of a sidecar for the National Health Service and must…

“Maternity and child care and child health, I think, has been treated as a bit of a sidecar for the National Health Service. I think it has to be a priority.”

Government invests one hundred forty million in urgent care

Before the BBC appearance, Cooper announced a one hundred forty million pound boost for urgent care in England, spent on fourteen schemes including new urgent care centres, ambulance fleets and emergency department upgrades.