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00:00 Winter is always a challenging time for the NHS and this year we started planning for
00:03 winter earlier than ever before.
00:05 Today we're announcing £200m which will go to the NHS to help build extra capacity
00:10 and resilience for this winter season, making sure that patients can get the care that they
00:15 need, but also ensure that we can continue to protect planned elective care because that's
00:20 important too.
00:21 And this comes as part of our record funding increase for the NHS.
00:25 Earlier this year we also announced the long-term workforce plan, making sure that for the first
00:29 time we train more doctors and nurses and dentists here in the UK, but also the work
00:35 we're doing to improve NHS performance, which the results of today's show is delivering
00:39 for patients with big improvements in ambulance times and A&E times since the winter.