Coronavirus: Hospital Beds
(asked on 16th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of bed capacity in NHS hospitals during the covid-19 outbreak.
An assessment of projected increases in COVID-19 cases and National Health Service bed availability was set out ahead of new national measures introduced from 5 November. This information can be found at the following link:
The publication of weekly bed availability and occupancy, including critical care beds, for winter 2020/21 has recently been started and the data for the first collection, from 2-8 November 2020 and is available at the following link:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/uec-sitrep/