LONDON, Oct. 19 -- Queen's Hospital in Romford built its emergency department for around 325 patients a day. It now regularly treats more than twice that number, the government said on Sunday, as it put £42.1 million toward transforming the department, the largest item in an urgent care package it rounds to almost £140 million.

The package, issued by the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and Health and Social Care Secretary Yvette Cooper, funds 14 new schemes in England, from urgent treatment centres and ambulance fleets to emergency department upgrades. Cooper said winter "will be more challenging for our NHS this year, after such a heavy summer."

The same release says 25 further sites announced in April "will...