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Apr 2018
NHS staffing crisis leaves more than 1,400 hospital beds empty
Figures obtained through freedom of information have revealed that 82 wards across the NHS have been moth-balled due to a lack of funding, enough to fill two hospitals. The number of empty beds in September 2017 had tripled in four years, 1,429 compared to 503 in September 2013. The Society for Acute Medicine’s president, Dr…
