NHS to buy care beds to make space in hospitals
The NHS is being given an extra £250m to buy beds in care homes as it grapples with a winter crisis….
Of the new funding, £200m will go towards buying up extra care home beds, with £50m of capital funding to upgrade hospitals. Those plans will aim to deal with ambulance queues by creating areas for vehicles to manoeuvre, and also funding discharge areas in hospitals so patients can be moved out of acute beds.
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