At 13:48 10/03/2020, Martin Rathfelder wrote:
>Surely its not the beds which is the issue, its the staffing?
I don't think we are talking about physical beds. I think that, in
normal parlance, the "number of hospital beds available" (in a
hospital, district, country or whatever) is, by implication, the
number of beds (patients) that can be supported by available staff.
It is far from unknown in the UK that a ward full of physical beds is
'closed' (and those beds therefore not 'counted' as available)
because of a temporary (or less temporary!) absence of enough staff
to support those beds.
Kind Regards,
John
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