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Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced that the NHS will get a £140 million boost for 25 new or expanded urgent care sites in time for winter. The scheme will increase NHS capacity and ease pressure on Accident & Emergency departments during the peak winter period. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well the NHS has been steadily improving over the last two years as part of our turnaround plan but we
00:06know there was particular heavy pressure on A&E this summer and that's why we're so clear we need strong
00:13winter plans in place and also we're announcing new urgent treatment centres, new same day emergency care and there's going
00:22to be an additional 25 of those open for this winter and that means that treatment and faster support
00:29for hundreds of thousands of patients over the next year.

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