NHS: Standards
(asked on 10th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the measures in the Government’s Our plan for patients plan announced in September 2022 will be implemented.
This question was answered on 18th October 2022
‘Our plan for patients’ commits to increase the number of 999 and 111 call handlers by December 2022, launch a £500 million Adult Social Care Discharge Fund for winter 2022/23, and open an additional 7,000 National Health Service beds. The relevant national statistics and published performance data will allow progress to be assessed and further information will be available in due course.