Some patients are likely to spend
Christmas day in hospital with the virus as
Covid-19 cases
continue to surge across Gloucestershire,
At the time of writing (December 24), there were 72 patients in hospital with coronavirus across the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - covering Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital.
Positively, none of these patients required a mechanical ventilator to breathe.
"For some, however, Christmas is not a celebration."
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- The total number of NHS hospital beds in England has more than halved over the past 30 years, from around 299,000 in 1987/88 to 141,000 in 2019/20, while the number of patients treated has increased significantly.
The number of hospital beds in England has more than halved over the past 30 years. This explainer looks at data on hospital beds, explores the drivers underpinning the changes it shows, and considers whether further reductions to bed numbers are realistic.
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