Biography
Dr Allin-Khan has engaged extensively on NHS pressures through 14 debate speeches, with particular focus on A&E corridor care as chair of the all-party parliamentary group on emergency care. She has repeatedly raised delayed hospital discharges, ambulance response times, elderly frailty care, and mental health provision in A&E, drawing on her experience as an NHS emergency doctor at St George's Hospital in Tooting. Her contributions have consistently emphasised the need for data transparency, multi-party solutions, and dignified patient care standards across the emergency care system.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“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…”
Record by topic
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking3rd of 13933.0
- A&E & ambulance response20th of 25815.0
- Mental health290th of 88012.0
- Heart disease & stroke174th of 3983.0
- Elderly care & frailty76th of 2363.0
- Public health & prevention417th of 6883.0
What they’ve said
“…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 ↗
“…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.”
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 ↗
“…and that is not the best, safest or most efficient place for any of our incredible teams of police officers and mental health nurses, who are trying to get on with their job. It is incredibly distressing.”
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 ↗
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