NHS care beds funding: "Unforgivable" that winter plan being announced in January

Responding to the government announcing £250m to buy care beds as part of a new plan to tackle the NHS winter crisis, Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:

“It is unforgivable that plans to tackle the winter crisis in the NHS are only being announced in January. 

“Conservative ministers have been asleep at the wheel for months, while hospitals fill up to the brim and patients are catastrophically let down.

“The government must now declare a national critical incident and fast-track the rest of the £500m of funding to discharge fit patients into social care.

“The public should not be made to pay the price for months of Conservative chaos and inaction.”

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