{"id":806470,"date":"2026-10-18T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806470\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T10:10:10","slug":"corridor-care-in-hospitals-should-be-eliminated-for-children-health-secretary-tells-kuenssberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/806470\/","title":{"rendered":"Corridor care in hospitals should be eliminated for children, health secretary tells Kuenssberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHS faces more challenging winter than usual, warns health secretarypublished at 08:44 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:44 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dead0374-865f-47a3-a554-7b1639ed8a8f.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Ian Aikman<br \/>Live reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yvette Cooper is pictured speaking at a podium, wearing a blue jacket.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/4b33d0c6-b1c6-452b-aef1-608e7fec3429.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The NHS is facing a more challenging winter than normal, the health secretary says, after multiple heatwaves led to its busiest summer on record in England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yvette Cooper has announced \u00a3140m funding to boost urgent care capacity as part of an effort to deal with the impact of seasonal illnesses, including flu and norovirus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The money will go towards 14 schemes across England, including new urgent care centres, ambulance fleets and upgrades to emergency departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shadow health secretary Damian Hinds says the government needs to act, but has asked it to explain where the money is coming from. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) England says the funding is &#8220;just another sticking plaster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cooper says: &#8220;Winter will be more challenging for our NHS this year, after such a heavy summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s why we have been preparing early and investing in extra urgent care capacity to help get patients the care they need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yvette Cooper will be speaking to Laura Kuenssberg on this morning&#8217;s show, you can watch live above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHS faces more challenging winter than usual, warns health secretarypublished at 08:44 BST 08:44 BST Ian AikmanLive reporter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-806470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}