NHS plan: £1bn boost in hospital beds and ambulance fleet

Key Facts

• Image source, PA Media Thousands of extra hospital beds and hundreds of ambulances will be rolled out in England this year in a bid to tackle the long emergency care delays.
• Details of the £1bn investment will be set out later in a joint government and NHS England two-year blueprint.
• Falls services which provide urgent responses to older people with the aim of avoiding a hospital admission will also be run all-year round.
• "Whatever service you are looking at, the one thing that's going to affect the quality of care and access is the number of staff you have so unless you've got a clear proposal for that it's hard to see how it [this plan] will have an impact very quickly."

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