Winter Plan - will it work this time?

Or is it going to be more of the same?

It’s that time of the year when the first murmurings of winter crisis emerge in the NHS. The PM invited the top brass to Downing St to thrash out the latest plan to avert the forthcoming crisis. 

Last Winter, it was the Coffey plan. Her ‘laser-like’ focus on the problems would solve the inevitable rise in admissions. The plan involved increasing 999 call…