The King’s Fund warns against further hospital bed cuts With hospitals full to capacity, NHS plans in some areas to cut hospital beds are undesirable and unachievable, warns The King’s Fund in a new report.
New analysis for the report finds that the total number of NHS hospital beds in England has more than halved over the past 30 years, from around 299,000 to 142,000, as more people with mental illness and learning disabilities are cared for in the community and medical advances have reduced the time many patients spend in hospital. Although it finds that most advanced nations have reduced hospital bed numbers in recent years, the report shows that the NHS now has fewer acute hospital beds per person than almost any other comparable health system. The King's Fund
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New analysis for the report finds that the total number of NHS hospital beds in England has more than halved over the past 30 years, from around 299,000 to 142,000, as more people with mental illness and learning disabilities are cared for in the community and medical advances have reduced the time many patients spend in hospital. Although it finds that most advanced nations have reduced hospital bed numbers in recent years, the report shows that the NHS now has fewer acute hospital beds per person than almost any other comparable health system. The King's Fund
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- Hospital bed numbers – can the downward trend continue? The King's Fund
- Number of NHS hospital beds has halved in three decades The Daily Mail
- Number of NHS beds has halved in 30 years, major study warns The Daily Telegraph
- Struggling NHS faces 'unrealistic' bed cuts Sky News
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