NHS beds by specialty

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Organisation From 1st October 2009, reforms took place across NHS organisations in Wales, involving a number of organisation mergers and renaming of organisations. Full details of the reforms can be found at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/documents/nhs%20reform%20leaflet_october%202009.pdf

From 1st October 2009, reforms took place across NHS organisations in Wales, involving a number of organisation mergers and renaming of organisations. Full details of the reforms can be found at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/documents/nhs%20reform%20leaflet_october%202009.pdf

Organisation 1

Organisation 2

Area Code

Measure

Measure1

Year

Specialty

Specialty 1

Specialty 2

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

All Specialties

12,806.7

12,149.3

11,809.7

11,497.0

11,241.5

11,061.5

All Specialties

Surgical Acute

2,863.4

2,655.6

2,547.8

2,439.6

2,427.2

2,448.4

Medical Acute

4,754.8

4,608.5

4,696.2

4,714.7

4,640.2

4,569.3

Other Acute

830.7

733.8

662.8

588.8

533.6

509.2

Maternity

536.7

527.2

526.3

502.1

475.2

485.2

Mental Illness

2,016.1

1,918.6

1,857.4

1,767.6

1,703.5

1,643.8

Pathology

1.0

0.0

0.0

Geriatric Medicine

1,561.8

1,490.1

1,307.7

1,289.7

1,273.6

1,219.6

Learning Disability

190.5

163.6

158.5

146.7

142.1

141.3

Community Medicine

51.7

51.0

52.9

47.8

46.0

44.7

Occupational Medicine

Nursing

0.0

High Dependency Not included in the total of all specialties. This is because in the data collection system, this information is entered separately to the main specialties and may include beds in several different specialties. This data has not been published for 2004-05 onwards due to data quality issues.

Not included in the total of all specialties. This is because in the data collection system, this information is entered separately to the main specialties and may include beds in several different specialties. This data has not been published for 2004-05 onwards due to data quality issues.

63.7

106.2

89.5

83.8

81.0

79.9

Paediatric Intensive Therapy Unit Not included in the total of all specialties. This is because in the data collection system, this information is entered separately to the main specialties and may include beds in several different specialties. This data has not been published for 2004-05 onwards due to data quality issues.

19.1

24.1

19.6

18.4

18.8

20.8

Special Care Baby Unit Not included in the total of all specialties. This is because in the data collection system, this information is entered separately to the main specialties and may include beds in several different specialties. This data has not been published for 2004-05 onwards due to data quality issues.

190.8

202.0

200.4

179.4

166.4

166.7

Bone Marrow Unit Not included in the total of all specialties. This is because in the data collection system, this information is entered separately to the main specialties and may include beds in several different specialties. This data has not been published for 2004-05 onwards due to data quality issues.

14.7

17.5

18.6

12.3

10.1

10.0

Intensive Care Not included in the total of all specialties. This is because in the data collection system, this information is entered separately to the main specialties and may include beds in several different specialties. This data has not been published for 2004-05 onwards due to data quality issues.

114.2

126.5

121.1

109.2

100.0

128.6

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Title

NHS Beds by organisation and specialty since 2009-10

Last update

27 October 2015

Next update

October 2016 (provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

QueSt1 return, NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS)

Source 2

NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS)

Contact email

stats.healthinfo@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

None

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local health boards

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

General description

This table presents summary information, from the QueSt1 return, provided by the NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS), on bed use in Wales.

The data do not present data on average length of stay, turnover interval and bed use factor. These indicators are calculated using data on deaths and discharges which is no longer collected via the QS1 return, and need to be derived from the Patient Episode Database for Wales (PEDW) for 2012-13 onwards. When carrying out more detailed analysis of the deaths and discharges data from PEDW in preparation for the 2012-13 release, data quality issues arose in relation to assessment unit (AU) activity reporting in QS1 and in PEDW and how this should be treated in the data. It was identified that there is inconsistency in the reporting of assessment units, with some LHBs reporting AU activity within their beds data, and others omitting them. Although this inconsistency in the reporting of AU activity was only recently identified, it is likely that historic data could also be affected.

Please find information on changes to the data published on NHS beds, as per the given weblink.

Data collection and calculation

Please find this information in the related statistical release, as per the given weblink.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data is shown from 2009-10 onwards.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical release, as per the given weblink.

Statistical quality

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Weblinks

Statistical release:
http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/nhs-beds/?lang=en

Statistical Article Changes to data published on NHS beds:
http://gov.wales/docs/statistics/2014/140227-changes-data-published-nhs-beds-en.pdf

Keywords

Beds; Patients; NHS

Name

HLTH0309