Transport secretary plays down impact assessment saying new legislation would make more industrial action more likely
In an interview with LBC this morning Grant Shapps, the business secretary, defended the NHS’s decision to put temporary cabins in car parks for patients as a means of dealing with the A&E overcrowding service.
Yesterday the government said it was spending £50m in England “to expand hospital discharge lounges and ambulance hubs”. The Times says in practice this means some patients being put in cabins in hospital car parks.
NHS patients face being treated in temporary cabins set up in hospital car parks under plans to tackle the crisis in the health service …
[Steve Barclay, the health secretary, told MPs] the government would now fund “more physical capacity in and around emergency departments”, and said that temporary structures could provide this “in weeks not months”.
