Labour highlights hospital capacity fall

Older woman in hospital bed

Source: Older woman in hospital bed

Hospitals are “dangerously close to full”, Labour has warned, after it emerged that the number of hospital beds available to patients in England has shrunk by almost 6 per cent since the coalition government took office.

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