Statistical press notice: Bed Availability and Occupancy – Quarter ending 30th June 2012
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health: Bed Availability and Occupancy - Quarter ending 30th June 2012: …
The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:
Bed Availability and Occupancy - Quarter ending 30th June 2012:
The KH03 is a Quarterly collection from all NHS organisations that operate beds, ordinary or daycase, both NHS Trusts and PCTs. 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 137,642 in Quarter 1 2012/13 compared with 140,449 in Quarter 4 2011/12.
- The average occupancy rate for all beds open overnight was 85.8% in Quarter 1 2012/13 compared with 86.9% in Quarter 4 2011/12.
- The average daily number of general and acute beds open overnight was 105,161 in Quarter 1 2012/13 compared with 107,444 in Quarter 4 2011/12.
- The average occupancy rate for general and acute beds open overnight was 87.5% in Quarter 1 2012/13 compared with 89.0% in Quarter 4 2011/12.
- The average daily number of day only beds was 11,614 in Quarter 1 2012/13 compared with 11,715 in Quarter 4 2011/12.
From quarter 2 2011/12 onwards we have had responses from six NHS Foundation trusts which had not submitted previously, therefore caution should be made when making comparisons at national and SHA level over time.
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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Additional Information
Full details of activity data for individual organisations
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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,LeedsLS2 7UE
Email: Unify2@dh.gsi.gov.uk