Health written question – answered at on 26 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health
(1) how many NHS hospital beds there are in England; and how many of those beds are in single rooms;
(2) how many hospital beds the Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has; and how many such beds are in single rooms.
The national health service provides data to the Department annually relating to:
the annual average daily number of patient beds available; and the number of those beds that are single bedrooms for patients.
These data are collected through the Estates Returns Information Collection, and the relevant data for the latest available period, 2011-12, are provided in the table.
England | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | |
Number of available beds | 148,798 | 735 |
Number of available beds that are single bedrooms | 55,863 | 287 |
The data provided have been supplied by the NHS and have not been amended centrally.
The accuracy and completeness of the information is the responsibility of the provider organisation.
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