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Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

Row over £1billion ‘virtual wards’ care plan as NHS faces staffing crisis

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched the NHS strategy in Darlington

(Picture: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

A row broke out on Monday over whether Government plans to fix emergency care would work while the NHS faces a staffing crisis.

Thousands more hospital beds and 800 new ambulances are at the centre of a £1billion proposal to boost floundering urgent health care and bring down excessive waiting times.

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