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<p>A range of measures are in place to reduce ambulance response times, including
in East Yorkshire. The National Health Service winter resilience plan will increase
NHS bed capacity by the equivalent of at least 7,000 general and acute beds, helping
reduce pressure in accident and emergency so that ambulances can get swiftly back
out on the road.</p><p>An additional £250 million has been made available to enable
the NHS to buy up beds in the community to safely discharge thousands of patients
from hospital and capital for discharge lounges and ambulance hubs. This will improve
flow through hospitals and reducing waits to handover ambulance patients. This is
on top of the £500 million already invested last year.</p><p>NHS England has allocated
£150 million of additional system funding for ambulance service pressures in 2022/23,
alongside £20 million of capital funding to upgrade the ambulance fleet in each year
to 2024/25.</p><p>As announced in the Autumn Statement, the Government is investing
an additional £3.3 billion in each of 2023/24 and 2024/25 to enable rapid action to
improve urgent and emergency, elective, and primary care performance towards pre-pandemic
levels. The NHS will soon set out detailed recovery plans to deliver faster ambulance
response times.</p>
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