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Acute and Non-Acute Delayed Transfers of Care

Information on availability of crtical care beds, cancelled operations and delayed transfer of care data has been published for December 2011.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 30 January 2012

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The main findings were:

• there were 3,696 adult critical care beds available and 2,961 occupied giving an occupancy rate of 80.1%
• the number of urgent operations cancelled was 389 compared to 419 in the previous month
• there were 112,999 patients delayed days during the month, of which 62,689 were acute

Statistical tables and additional information is available at: Acute and Non-Acute Delayed Transfers of Care

Published 30 January 2012