Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust: Hospital Beds

(asked on 2nd February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the bed capacity is at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust; what estimate he has made of the proportion of beds which were unused at that trust during winter 2017-18; and what the reasons were for those beds being unused.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 7th February 2018

NHS England publishes weekly winter situational reports showing the number of beds available as well as the number and proportion of those that are occupied. This is published at both a national and a trust level. The current reporting period for which data is available is 20 November 2017 to 28 January 2018. Over this period, at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust, there was an average of 397 general and acute beds open per day. Of these, 376 (94.7%) were occupied.

Bed availability and occupancy is managed at a local level. Hospitals have a responsibility in ensuring that they are operating with the necessary beds available to support with patient flow and safety.

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