BRADFORD will receive more than £2.2 million as part of a programme to ease winter pressures on the NHS.

The extra funding, part of a £240 million fund, is aimed at reducing delayed transfers of care.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: “I have already provided funding for hospitals to make upgrades to their buildings to deal with pressures this winter, and I am making an extra £240 million available to councils to pay for social care packages this winter to support our NHS. "We will use this money to help people who don't need to be in hospital, but do need care, to get back home, into their communities, so we can then free up those vital hospital beds, and help more people get the hospital care they need."

NHS leaders have also announced an ambition for 100 per cent of frontline workers to get the flu jab. For the first time, children in Year 5 of primary school will be offered the flu vaccine.

This means all children aged between two and nine will be offered the jab.