Bed Statistics
Available Beds by Specialty & NHS Board of Treatment
Information presented covers financial years 2000/01 to 2009/10, and provides details on average available staffed beds, occupancy rates, length of stay and throughput by specialty at Scotland level and by NHS Board of treatment. Examples of the type of information that can be extracted from the data are shown below.
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The figures for year ending 31st March 2010 should be considered provisional. They show a decrease in the average number of available staffed beds in acute specialties to 17,260, from 17,388 on year ending 31st March 2009.
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The occupancy rate of acute beds has been fairly constant over the last ten years at between 80-82%.
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The mean stay (days) per episode for the year ending 31st March 2010 ranges from 4.1 in Forth Valley to 7.9 in Western Isles.
Statistics showing Available Beds by Specialty & NHS Board of Treatment (MS Excel document - 1.6B)
Trends by NHS Board of Treatment (MS Excel document - 08MB)
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Notes
Specialty definitions in Scotland were revised from 1st April 1997. As a result directly comparable information prior to 1997/98 is not available and, hence, not included in this summary.
NHS Argyll & Clyde ceased to exist at 1st April 2006. NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and NHS Highland board areas were revised to include Argyll & Clyde. Data is shown for these new boards from 2007, and for the previous years by mapping Argyll & Clyde data to include with Greater Glasgow and Highland data.
For comparable information in England, please refer to the Department of Health website using the following link:
ISD(S)1 Team
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