Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will list by month total ICU bed occupancy in the NHS in each of the last three years, including the current year to date.
The information requested from November 2017 to February 2020 is shown in the following table.
| % of Open beds occupied | |||
Year | Period | Adult critical care beds | Paediatric intensive care beds | Neonatal critical care cots (or beds) |
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2017-18 | November | 84.6% | 82.9% | 74.0% |
2017-18 | December | 82.2% | 79.9% | 70.9% |
2017-18 | January | 86.6% | 77.2% | 71.5% |
2017-18 | February | 85.4% | 79.3% | 69.7% |
2017-18 | March | 82.6% | 78.7% | 72.3% |
2018-19 | April | 81.9% | 73.8% | 72.2% |
2018-19 | May | 79.9% | 73.3% | 72.9% |
2018-19 | June | 79.6% | 75.4% | 74.2% |
2018-19 | July | 78.3% | 72.4% | 69.8% |
2018-19 | August | 78.4% | 66.2% | 70.1% |
2018-19 | September | 80.0% | 76.1% | 69.3% |
2018-19 | October | 80.8% | 77.2% | 73.8% |
2018-19 | November | 82.7% | 87.6% | 72.5% |
2018-19 | December | 75.4% | 74.1% | 67.4% |
2018-19 | January | 85.3% | 79.3% | 70.1% |
2018-19 | February | 81.5% | 77.4% | 70.1% |
2018-19 | March | 80.7% | 77.3% | 71.2% |
2019-20 | April | 80.8% | 77.0% | 70.2% |
2019-20 | May | 79.2% | 73.3% | 70.8% |
2019-20 | June | 80.6% | 74.9% | 73.3% |
2019-20 | July | 79.6% | 73.8% | 69.9% |
2019-20 | August | 79.4% | 64.7% | 69.4% |
2019-20 | September | 80.8% | 74.4% | 69.9% |
2019-20 | October | 80.9% | 76.5% | 69.7% |
2019-20 | November | 82.9% | 83.5% | 73.0% |
2019-20 | December | 75.3% | 79.6% | 71.5% |
2019-20 | January | 83.0% | 79.2% | 71.2% |
2019-20 | February | 81.1% | 81.3% | 69.3% |
Notes:
Due to COVID-19 and the need to release capacity across the National Health Service to support the response, NHS England have paused the monthly collection and publication of critical care bed capacity. However, from 12 November 2020, a separate weekly data update commenced which includes data on adult critical care capacity and occupancy. Data from 2 November to 15 November is available at the following link: