Bed Availability and Occupancy – Quarter ending 30 September 2012
The KH03 is a Quarterly collection from all NHS organisations that operate beds, ordinary or daycase, both NHS Trusts and PCTs.
Bed Availability and Occupancy - Quarter ending 30 September 2012:
It collects the total number of available bed days and the total number of occupied bed days by consultant main specialty. Main findings are:
- The average daily number of beds open overnight was 135,602 in Quarter 2 2012/13 compared with 137,339 in Quarter 1 2012/13.
- The average occupancy rate for all beds open overnight was 85.2% in Quarter 2 2012/13 compared with 85.9% in Quarter 1 2012/13.
- The average daily number of general and acute beds open overnight was 103,774 in Quarter 2 2012/13 compared with 104,933 in Quarter 1 2012/13.
- The average occupancy rate for general and acute beds open overnight was 86.5% in Quarter 2 2012/13 compared with 87.7% in Quarter 1 2012/13.
- The average daily number of day only beds was 11,701 in Quarter 2 2012/13 compared with 11,521 in Quarter 1 2012/13.
Notes to Editors
This dataset covers the number of beds for each NHS provider which are available for patients to have treatment or care.
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The Government Statistical Service (GSS) statistician responsible for producing these data is:
Clare Hiblin Knowledge and Intelligence Department of Health Room 4E63, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE