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Biography

Dr Allin-Khan has engaged extensively on NHS emergency care through 14 debate speeches, with particular focus on corridor care in A&E departments as a recurring theme across multiple contributions. Drawing on her experience as a serving NHS emergency doctor at St George's Hospital, she has raised concerns about patient dignity, safety, and staff wellbeing in overcrowded emergency departments, whilst also addressing related issues including delayed hospital discharges, elderly frailty care, and mental health provision. As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on emergency care, she has presented specific recommendations to address these systemic issues.

Generated from their own Hansard record, below

“…I also know that my hospital of St George’s in Tooting has a special dedicated frailty unit that goes a long way in speeding things up for people. Good pilots are going on across the country, where care can be taken to our elderly community before people come in.”

Record by topic

  1. Hospital discharge / bed-blocking3rd of 13933.0
  2. A&E & ambulance response20th of 25915.0
  3. Mental health294th of 88412.0
  4. Heart disease & stroke174th of 4003.0
  5. Elderly care & frailty76th of 2403.0
  6. Public health & prevention420th of 6913.0

What they’ve said

  • “I beg to move, That this House has considered NHS corridor care. I express my sincere thanks to the Backbench Business Committee for granting time to the important subject of corridor care, and I declare my interest as a proud serving NHS emergency doctor working in A&E at St George’s hospital in my Tooting constituenc…”

    NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • “That is absolutely right—the hon. Member makes a valid point. People can be enduring a heart attack; they can be losing a baby; they can have had a road traffic accident and be lying on a trolley, blocked and collared, or lying on a board and looking up at the ceiling, wondering when they might make it into the scanner.”

    NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • “I thank the hon. Member for his intervention. Although it digresses from the debate about corridor care, I will happily answer his question. I think everybody in the NHS must be able to go to work free of intimidation, bullying and harassment.”

    NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • “…forming a double act today, but he leads me on perfectly to the next part of my speech, as I go on to say that “corridor care” is something of a misnomer. Treatment in a corridor, far away from oxygen, proper equipment and emergency cords to pull, without privacy or dignity, without access to decent and appropriate toi…”

    NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗

  • “…The reality is that corridor care is happening in every corner of the country. The drivers of the issue of corridor care are multifaceted, but one key cause that we cannot escape is our failing social care system that forces medically fit patients to sit and wait in hospital beds, seemingly endlessly.”

    NHS Corridor Care · 2026-07-08 · Read on Hansard ↗

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