Professor John Robertson OBA Hospital Stats and Facts activist Dr Steve Taylor (https://x.com/DrSteveTaylor) posted the above today to draw attention the correlation between falling bed numbers and worsening A&E in NHS England. The contrast with Scotland, which of course, has far better A&E performance could not be more stark: The most recent data available on hospital beds per head of population for England, Scotland, and Wales comes from a mix of sources, primarily from 2023 and 2024. Below are the figures based on the best available information: Scotland has, per head of population almost twice as many hospital beds as … Continue reading Scotland has almost TWICE as many hospital beds per head of population than England to keep longer A&E waits at far lower levels