https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/urgent-and-emergency-care-recovery-plan-year-2-building-on-learning-from-2023-24/<\/a><\/p>Progress includes delivering 5,000 additional core hospital beds, exceeding our virtual ward bed capacity ambition, with over 12,000 now available, and increasing same day emergency care services across the country. These measures are helping to improve patient flow through accident and emergency (A&E) and reduce the ambulance capacity lost to handover delays.<\/p>
Since the publication of the plan, both A&E and ambulance performance has improved during 2023/24, compared to the previous year. In addition, average ambulance patient handover times have fallen to 32 minutes 42 seconds in April 2024, from 37 minutes 33 seconds in October 2023, when the publication of this data began.<\/p>"}
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NHS England are developing ongoing plans for evaluating the initiatives in the recovery plan.<\/p>"}
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It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.<\/p>"}
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Under our Delivery plan to recover urgent and emergency care services, we are taking a range of measures to improve patient flow through hospital and reduce waiting times in accident and emergency.<\/p>
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These include the delivery of 5,000 more staffed, permanent beds this year compared to 2022/23 plans, supported by £1 billion of dedicated funding. This is alongside a further £1.6 billion of funding for social care to reduce the numbers of beds occupied by patients ready to be discharged. We are also improving hospital discharge processes by establishing \u2018Care transfer hubs\u2019 in every hospital ahead of next winter, alongside new approaches to step-down care to free up bed capacity for those who need it. We are also scaling up the use of virtual wards by an additional 3,000 beds, with over 10,000 beds now available nationally.<\/p>"}
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NHS England advise that 173 out of 175 hospital sites, or 99%, provide Same Day Emergency Care services.<\/p>"}
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The commissioning of local services is a matter for the National Health Service, allocating funding to best meet patient needs locally. Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the commissioning of both full type one emergency departments and type three accident and emergency services, including those badged as Minor Injuries Units.<\/p>
As set out in the Delivery Plan for Recovering Urgent and Emergency Care, ICBs should determine where type three services will be most effectively located. We expect that decisions about all existing services should be concluded through 2023/24.<\/p>"}
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We are continuing to make progress to deliver the 800 ambulances, 5,000 beds, and 3,000 additional virtual ward beds set out in our Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan.<\/p>
This plan is backed by £1 billion of additional funding.<\/p>
NHS England is working with Integrated Care Boards and Ambulance Trusts to review local demand and capacity and ensure plans are put in place to deliver these commitments.<\/p>"}
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Since the delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services was published in January 2023, a detailed demand and capacity planning exercise has been undertaken with all 42 integrated care boards to ensure the commitment of an additional 5,000 general and acute beds will be delivered in addition to other interventions, including same day emergency care, virtual wards and intermediate care. Plans have also been agreed with Ambulance Trusts to increase ambulance capacity across England.<\/p>"}
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To support accident and emergency (A&E) departments in delivering essential services, NHS England has published the Delivery Plan for Recovering Urgent and Emergency Care Services, which aims to deliver one of the fastest and longest-sustained improvements in emergency waiting times in the National Health Service\u2019s history. This includes bringing down A&E wait times significantly over the next year, and down towards pre-pandemic levels within two years.<\/p>
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The plan also sets out making greater use of virtual wards, with an extra 3,000 virtual ward beds, to provide over 10,000 in total by this autumn.<\/p>
Same Day Emergency Care services will also be in place across every hospital with a major emergency department. This is alongside expanding and better joining up health and care outside hospital, including by scaling urgent community response, frailty and falls services across the whole country, helping to reduce attendances at A&E.<\/p>"}
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NHS England has now established governance overseeing the implementation of the Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery plan and will monitor the delivery of commitments in it, including the continuing rollout of high intensity user services (HIU).<\/p>
We have established an implementation group with regional and local representation, and are offering wider support to systems that are rolling out or expanding HIU services by using data to provide personalised contact.<\/p>
We have also put key operational processes and guidance in place to support systems implementing HIU services. These are available at the following link:<\/p>
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