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Government's winter pressure funding will not provide a ‘magic fix’ to A&E crisis, health leader warns
A general view of an ambulances outside the Accident and Emergency department at St Thomas's hospital, central London.
NEW government funding to alleviate winter pressures on the NHS will not fix ailing A&E departments in the long-term, a senior medic has warned.
Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) president Dr Adrian Boyle told MPs on the health and social care committee on Tuesday that while the new funds were welcome, they will do little to address the “serious structural problems” inside emergency departments.
The government announced earlier this month an extra £250 million to buy care home beds to ease pressure on the NHS.
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