NHS England launches emergency winter plan to tackle expected A&E overcrowding
Health Secretary Wes Streeting and senior NHS England officials launched measures to expand bed capacity, deploy virtual wards and increase primary care appointments to avert severe emergency department congestion across England.
Wes Streeting pulls out the telescopic end of an NHS hospital bed while a nurse fits an extra mattress section. Outside the A&E entrance, an enormous snow-built figure representing the approaching winter waits with a pillow wider than the bed. A separate wall chart shows the elective waiting list declining.
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