What is it about?
While hospital bed numbers in the UK have consistently declined and number of occupied bed days has remained roughly constant. Bed occupancy has therefore steadily increased.
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Why is it important?
Declining bed numbers were supposedly to be offset by a shift into non-acute care. This did not materialize.
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Bed planning in the UK has been somewhat of a disaster with political rhetoric taking precedence over reality. Seven year later and nothing has changed, further beds have been closed but bed occupancy still has not declined, see full series at http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Building smaller hospitals, British Journal of Healthcare Management, October 2009, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2009.15.10.44595.
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