At 14:33 18/11/2016 +0000, Martin Rathfelder wrote:
>An anecdotal example. I visited Krems an der Donau, a couple of years ago,
>where I have a friend who is a doctor. He said the town hospital has about
>600 beds. The town has a population of about 25,000, and probably serves
>an area of 50,000.
If that is true, and if 'averages' mean anything, that is, indeed,
extremely high by UK standards. As I understand it, the UK currently has a
population of about 65m and the NHS has about 130,000 beds - which leads to
the very neat figure of 1 bed for every 500 people. On that basis, a UK
hospital serving a population of about 50,000 would only have about 100 beds.
>North Devon District Hospital, in Barnstaple - the town has a similar size
>of population - but serves a much bigger area has 423 beds, and some of
>them are under threat.
Per above figures, 'on average' one would expect a 423-bed UK hospital to
be serving a population of around 211,500.
These 'beds per X people in population served' figures are obviously very
much distorted by the fact that individual hospitals often do not have all
specialities available and that tertiary referral hopitals/units can serve
massive populations.
Kind Regards,
John
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