Hospital Beds

(asked on 9th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS (a) physical and (b) virtual beds were opened in January 2023.


Answered by
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Will Quince
This question was answered on 21st February 2023

The information requested is not collected centrally.

NHS England publishes the KH03 dataset, which is a quarterly collection from all National Health Service organisations that operate beds. It collects the total number of available bed days and the total number of occupied bed days by consultant main specialty. Data for Q4 2022/23, covering January 2023, will be published in April.

NHS England also publishes Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Reports, detailing the number of General and Acute and critical care beds open and occupied. In January 2023, there was a daily average of 101,717 physical general and acute NHS beds open.

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