BBCNEWS Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg June 4, 2024 09:18:00
Planning for winterfor under huge pressure. we have been planning for winter for many months. we have been increasing capacity with around 7000 bed equivalents, that includes things like so—called virtual wards in the community where we can provide treatment and care at home that previously would have been provided in a hospital bed. we are increasing the number of 111 call handlers this winter and introducing local system control centres to manage pressures between how systems and social care. we are putting on systems for the frail and elderly who have a full can be managed at home and not...