News / Minister hands out £10m to Welsh emergency services
Wales health minister Lesley Griffiths (pictured) has released £10m from her department’s contingency funds to ease pressure on emergency services after a hike in demand.
She said the funding would help ‘underpin a wider programme of longer term sustainability’ after the normal spike in demand over the winter continued through to the summer months.
There has also been a marked increase in the clinical complexity and frailty of patients being admitted and this has led to longer stays in hospital, she added. It is unclear how the money will be allocated, though it will be available in 2012/13 to support improvement and ‘accelerate service transformation in urgent and emergency care’.
Recently, the Wales government has moved away from in-year funding adjustments to brokerage.
‘I’ve approved a £10m injection of funding from NHS contingency reserves to help rebalance the system and put measures in place to ensure continued and high clinical quality delivery of emergency care services for patients,’ Ms Griffiths said.
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