Policy and regulation

NHS ‘needs more acute beds’ after decade of reduction

By 2019-06-19T15:21:00

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Acute trusts will need to increase their bed base during the next five years according to NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens, which would reverse a long trend of bed reductions in the NHS.

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