Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan Debate
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Ruth Edwards
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Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan
Ruth Edwards Excerpts(1 year, 9 months ago)
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Steve Barclay
I would be very keen to visit, subject to my diary. If it is not me, I am sure a ministerial colleague will do so.
Ruth Edwards (Rushcliffe) (Con)
I welcome the £1 billion funding announced today, and it is good that hospitals have benefited from innovations such as patient flow control centres, care transfer hubs, and virtual wards. When will hospitals and ICBs such as Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, which has not been part of the pilot, be able to access those innovations, so that my constituents can start to access the benefits?
Steve Barclay
They can start to access them now. We announced £250 million at the start of the month, as part of the £500 million that was announced in the autumn statement, and hospitals know that funding of up to £8 billion is coming in the new fiscal year, so this is an opportunity for them to move at pace.