{"id":205735,"date":"2020-04-16T06:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T06:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205735"},"modified":"2020-04-18T06:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T06:15:10","slug":"uk-hospital-beds-four-times-emptier-than-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=205735","title":{"rendered":"UK: Hospital Beds Four Times Emptier Than Usual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Joseph Watson — Summit News April 15, 2020<\/h1>\n
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Just 19 patients were treated at the 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale hospital in London over Easter weekend<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite the coronavirus outbreak, NHS hospital beds in the UK are four times emptier than normal and a newly built hospital in the north-east of England may now never be used.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTens of thousands of NHS hospital beds remain unoccupied amid the coronavirus crisis \u2014 about four times the normal number \u2014 due to huge ongoing efforts to free up space, and a slowdown in admissions from other causes,\u201d reports HSJ<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFigures from the national NHS operational dashboard, seen by HSJ, show that 40.9 per cent of NHS general acute beds were unoccupied as of the weekend \u2014 37,500 of the total 91,600 relevant beds recorded in the data. That is 4,500 more than the 33,000 the NHS said had been freed up on 27 March, and nearly four times the normal amount of free acute beds at this time of year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the reasons for the empty hospital beds is that people who would normally go to hospital for treatment are avoiding doing so because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Experts have warned that this could cause more serious illnesses and deaths in the long term.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another reason is that a lot of patients were discharged last month early in preparation for the coronavirus surge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, NHS bosses have said<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>that a new Nightingale Hospital built in Tyne and Wear to deal with extra coronavirus patients may now never be needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we will need to open,\u201d said Martin Wilson, chief operating officer for Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.<\/span><\/p>\n

The empty hospital beds will prompt questions as to when the lockdown in the UK will end given that one of the core reasons for imposing it in the first place was to buy time in order to prevent the NHS becoming overwhelmed with patients.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think we will need to open,\u201d — Martin Wilson, chief operating officer for Newcastle Hospitals, said of the new hospital built for Covid-19 in Tyne and Wear <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205738,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205735\/revisions\/205738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}