The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

NHS Critical care beds, January 2011 census

The key points from the latest release are:

• The overall number of open and staffed adult critical care beds was 3,747. This represents 67 (1.8%) more beds than at 15 July 2010, and 73 (2.1%) more beds than one year ago.
• 2,774 (74.0%) of the beds were in general critical care with the remaining 973 (26.0%) in specialist critical care units/wards such as cardiothoracic, neurological, liver, spinal injury or burns units.
• 2,075 (55.4%) of the beds were being used for intensive care (level 3) and 1,672 (44.6%) were being used for high dependency (level 2) care on the census day.

Full tables are available here

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/Beds/DH_077451

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