Hospital intensive care no busier than normal, leaked documents show - even without Nightingales

 

Covid intensive care
Critical care in hospitals is no busier than normal for the majority of trusts, as evidenced by leaked documents, and raises more questions about whether a national lockdown is warranted.
An update from NHS Secondary Uses Services (SUS) seen by the Telegraph shows that capacity will be tracked at the beginning of November as usual with the usual number of available beds that would be expected at this time of year - even without additional surge capacity.
An NHS source said, "As you can see, our current position in October is exactly where we have been for the past five years."
The new data show that the intensive care beds were never more than 80 percent full, even at their peak in April.
Although gush capacity has declined since the first wave with the closure of the Nightingale emergency hospitals, there is still 15 percent reserve capacity across the country - which is pretty normal for this time of year.
The documents show that at 8 a.m. on November 2, 9,138 patients were in hospital in England, although they had since fallen to 9,077.
This means that Covid-19 patients make up around 10 percent of general and acute beds in hospitals. But there are still more than 13,000 beds available

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