NHS plan: £1bn for 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.
• Questions have also been raised about how the extra resources will be staffed - one in 10 posts in the NHS is vacant.
• The BBC's Jim Reed takes an interactive journey through a hospital to find out what's causing the NHS winter crisis The investment is being paid for using some of the extra £6.6bn the government announced for the NHS in the autumn statement for the next two years.

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