Corridor Care – Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports

Publishing corridor care data provides consistent national visibility on the extent to which patients are experiencing care in non-designated areas, which compromises patient privacy and the ability to provide safe, dignified care. The monthly publication of data will be used to track progress of interventions and ensure the right behaviours and system responses are in place to deliver sustained improvement.

Daily returns are collected from acute trusts and includes an experimental collection of data on Corridor Care bed occupancy and Corridor Care in Emergency Departments.

This is a new metric collection and as such should be treated as immature. The figures provide a baseline, but the data is expected to evolve and fluctuate as reporting matures ahead of winter. As we move forward seasonality is also likely to have an impact on the data.

There is ongoing work to ensure the completeness and validation of data and as the data matures it will show a more accurate picture of corridor care across England.

The publication shows daily submissions, as well as an average number of patients experiencing corridor care by region, ICB and provider during this period. A daily breakdown has been provided to show that providers may not have been able to submit for the whole period.

Averages are based on the number of submissions a trust has made, rather than the number of days in the month. Future publications may not include a daily breakdown.

Notes on the data

• As this collection is new, the publication and data are marked as experimental.
• The publication contains management data which has been collected on a rapid turn-round basis from the NHS. The speed of the collection only permits minimal validation to be undertaken but the data is considered ‘fit-for-purpose’.
• Guidance for the collection was refined after it was first issued in March and may not be consistently applied across Trusts impacting the quality and comparability of the data presented.
• The UEC Daily SitRep has a 14-day revision window, and it is not possible to amend figures submitted beyond that period.
• Within the submissions, where a provider submits a blank figure, this represents them not submitting any data whatsoever for the metric. Where the figure is a zero, the provider is stating they have had zero instances of corridor care for the period.

For further information on Corridor Care, including the definition and worked examples, see this site:  NHS England » Corridor care definition

Data will be published at 9.30am on Thursday 11th June 2026

Data – Excel files

Data – CSV files

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