Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

(asked on 14th November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many inpatient beds there were at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2009-10.


Answered by
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Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 17th November 2016

The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is shown in the following table.

NHS England advises that, during the past 24 months, Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has reduced the number of acute hospital beds on its King’s Mill Hospital site. This is as a result of improved patient flow and integrated working with community services, reducing unnecessary waits for rehabilitation and discharge.

There has been a long-term trend in the reduction of beds open overnight. A shift towards day case procedures, along with decreasing average length of stay, has reduced the demand for overnight beds in hospital.

Average daily number of available consultant-led beds open overnight by sector at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in 2009/10 and 2015/16

Total

General and Acute

Learning Disabilities

Maternity

Mental Illness

2009/10

697

648

-

49

-

2015/16

674

626

-

48

-

Source: Bed availability and occupancy, NHS England

Notes:

  1. Numbers of available beds are not collected by consultant specialty, because some beds may be available for more than one specialty to use depending on need. Instead, available beds are collected by four sectors within which beds are used flexibly. These sectors are general and acute, mental health, learning disabilities, and maternity.
  2. NHS England publishes quarterly data for bed availability and occupancy by four sectors; general and acute, learning disabilities, maternity and mental illness, prior to 2010/11 the data was an annual return collecting beds by ward classification.
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