NHS to be provided with ambulances and beds to tackle delays

Hundreds of ambulances and thousands of additional hospital beds will be rolled out in England this year in a bid to tackle the long delays in emergency care.

The 5,000 extra beds will boost capacity by 5 per cent, while the ambulance fleet will increase by 10 per cent with 800 new vehicles.

Details of the £1bn investment have been outlined in a joint NHS England and government two-year blueprint.

However, questions have been raised over how the additional resources will be staffed, with one in ten posts in the NHS currently vacant.

The King’s Fund health think tank has said that until that issue was addressed, it was “hard to see” how the plan would have an impact.

Siva Anandaciva of the King’s Fund, said that while the plan was “broadly sensible” the publication of the workforce plan was likely to be the “real defining” document for the health service.

“Whatever service you are looking at, the one thing that’s going to affect the quality of carte 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 will have an impact very quickly.”

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