A authorities pledge for an extra £250m to hurry up the discharge of sufferers from hospital might have arrived too late to make a distinction to the NHS this winter, well being leaders have warned.

The funding was introduced on 9 January after a summit assembly at Downing Street between the prime minister, the well being and social care secretary for England, and healthcare leaders on 7 January. The assembly was convened to sort out the extreme pressures which have left many hospitals struggling to release beds amid a surge of flu and covid circumstances.1

Health leaders mentioned the cash was a lot wanted however have to be launched urgently, on condition that it’s already mid-January.

NHS Providers’ interim chief govt, Saffron Cordery, mentioned, “Given the extreme strain the NHS has been below for a lot of months, belief leaders will ask whether or not this announcement is simply too little, too late to cope with what many warned final yr could be the worst winter on document.

“They will even need assurances that £200m might be distributed instantly whether it is to have an actual affect on the present …