Hospital Beds: Torbay
(asked on 17th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of patients in Torbay NHS Foundation Trust who had no criteria to reside but who were not discharged by the end of the day and (b) what proportion of acute day beds this entails in each of the last seven days.
Data on the daily number of patients who no longer meet the criteria to reside is published monthly by NHS England, and is available at the following link:
In addition, monthly average figures for the number of general and acute beds are published by NHS England, and are available at the following link:
For the Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, there were on average 34 adult patients each day in October 2025 who had no criteria to reside but who were not discharged by the end of the day.
The following table shows the proportion of acute beds occupied by patients with no criteria to reside but who had not been discharged for the last seven days of October 2025, during which time there were an average of 385 adult general and acute beds available, for the Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust:
Date | Number of patients remaining in hospital who no longer meet criteria to reside | Proportion of adult general and acute beds occupied by patients with no criteria to reside |
25/10/2025 | 29 | 8% |
26/10/2025 | 27 | 7% |
27/10/2025 | 37 | 10% |
28/10/2025 | 31 | 8% |
29/10/2025 | 34 | 9% |
30/10/2025 | 39 | 10% |
31/10/2025 | 33 | 9% |