The Royal College of Emergency Medicine says at least 4,519 patients have died as a result of crowding and 12 hour stays in Emergency Departments in Engla...
Posts Tagged ‘Beds’
Thousands of excess deaths caused by crowding in Emergency Departments, report finds
By Mike Broad - November 19th, 2021
“NHS needs up to 10,000 more beds to meet demand pressures this winter”
By Mike Broad - December 6th, 2018
Hospital A&E departments in England are on course for their worst winter on record and that up to 10,000 additional hospital beds will be needed for pa...
Reaction to report highlighting massive reduction in the number of NHS hospital beds
By Mike Broad - October 1st, 2017
RCP President, Jane Dacre "These stark figures from the King’s Fund do not come as a surprise to those working in medicine. Every day the chronic shor...
Cuts in hospital beds question whether NHS has capacity to cope with pressures
By Mike Broad - October 1st, 2017
With hospitals full to capacity, NHS plans in some areas to cut hospital beds are undesirable and unachievable, warns a report. New analysis for the rep...
Too many patients stuck on wrong wards
By Mike Broad - June 13th, 2012
Hospitals are suffering from a shortage of beds in specialist wards with patients having to ‘board’ in other wards where less specialist care can be pr...
Hospitals need to ‘axe thousands of more beds’
BBC Health - March 17th, 2010
Nearly 30,000 hospital beds in England should be axed to save money and improve care, a think tank says. Reform says the NHS's focus should move away from...
