Hospital Beds: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
(asked on 11th July 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 beds there were at (a) Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust and (b) Shropshire Community Health Trust in each year between 2015 and 2023; and what targets there is for the number of beds at each trust in winter 2023-24.
The average number of beds at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH) in 2015 to -2023 is shown in the table below.
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust | |
Year | Total average General & Acute Beds per year |
2015/16 | 715 |
2016/17 | 729 |
2017/18 | 650 |
2018/19 | 665 |
2019/20 | 706 |
2020/21 | 691 |
2021/22 | 725 |
2022/23 | 759 |
2023/24 YTD | 773 |
Source: NHS England
The NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board is planning to create an additional 52 sub-acute beds on the SaTH footprint by this winter. That will enable the trust to increase patient flow through its General and Acute bed base.
The information is not available in the format requested for Shropshire Community Health Trust (SCHT). SCHT is not planning any change to its bed base in 2023/24.