£250 million to boost NHS capacity with 900 new beds

£250 million to boost NHS capacity with 900 new beds Nine hundred new hospital beds will be delivered across the NHS as part of £250 million government funding to help treat patients more quickly this winter, the Health and Social Care Secretary, Steve Barclay, has announced today.

The funding has been awarded to NHS trusts to relieve pressures and help cut waiting lists, one of the government’s top five priorities. Department of Health and Social Care

See also:

• Funding for additional beds welcome but questions remain regarding how they will be staffed NHS Confederation
• NHS Providers responds to £250m NHS capacity boost NHS Providers
• £250m funding for more hospital beds in England this winter BBC News
• The NHS is set to receive £250 million to open 900 new hospital beds in a drive to cut waiting times The Daily Mail
• Government hands NHS £250m in bid to tackle waiting times The Independent
• NHS handed £250m to tackle waiting times - but fresh funding labelled 'sticking plaster' after cuts Sky News