On 30 April 2026, Secretary of State Wes Streeting announced significant improvements in NHS emergency services at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Annual Conference in Birmingham. He highlighted that almost 80% of patients are now seen within four hours in A&E, an increase of 500,000 compared with the previous year, and that ambulance response times have fallen to an average of 30 minutes, approaching the 18‑minute standard. The government is investing £300 million in 55 new or upgraded same‑day emergency care centres and £600 million in community pharmacy services. It also recruited 8,500 mental‑health professionals three years early, adding schools mental‑health teams for 900,000 children. Streeting called for continued change and noted that progress must be sustained across the NHS and social care.
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