NHS forced to provide 4,500 extra beds a day

NHS forced to provide 4,500 extra beds a day NHS Providers reveals how hospitals avoided a ‘full-blown crisis’ this winter by creating the equivalent of more than eight extra hospitals

Hospitals had to provide 4,500 extra beds a day at the height of the pressures this winter to avoid “a full-blown crisis”, NHS bosses have revealed.

That is the equivalent of creating more than eight extra hospitals to cope with unprecedented demand in recent months when large numbers of patients were stuck on trolleys and in the back of ambulances outside A&E units. Continue reading... The Guardian