NHS backlog wouldn’t be as bad if Number 10 had agreed to fund beds, study told

Ms Carey said: “I think the Prime Minister’s Office was involved in the decision to refuse and said that in fact they wanted to make greater use of Nightingales, the independent sector, to discharge patients again if necessary, using flu vaccinations . to hopefully absorb a possible flu wave, and that capacity would be looked at in the Spending Review… What were the consequences of refusing those 10,000 bed requests, from your perspective?”