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Doctors say a safe limit for bed occupancy, the number full of patients, is 85%, or around 85,000 beds. but this winter, it's been much, much higher, around 94,000 beds have been used up on any average day. one reason for that is because patients are often stuck in hospital, even though they are well enough to leave. over the winter, roughly 111,000 people were in that situation every day in england. that is one in every seven beds taken up by someone who doesn't really need to be there. these are often elderly people, who could leave hospital if care was available for them at home or in a car...

And then taking them back out to the ambulances to wait to be seen by doctors. but of course, it is utterly wrong to be doing that. those ambulances are needed to be out on the road so the paramedics can do theirjob in patients' home. the pressure on a&e and ambulance services this winter has been intense, with long waits, both to see patients and crucially, to move the most sick into another part of the hospital for further treatment. to find out what's really going on, we need to go back to our example hospital. to really understand the problems that are surfacing in a&e, we need to look dee...

Thousands of patients stay overnight to be treated. in england at any one time, the number of hospital beds available to the nhs is about 100,000 in total. doctors say a safe limit for bed occupancy, the numberfour of patients, is 85%, or around 85,000 beds. but this winter, it's been a much, much higher, around 94,000 beds have been used up on any average day. one reason for that is because patients are often stuck in hospital, even though they are well enough to leave. over the winter, roughly 14,000 people were in that situation everyday in england. that is one in every seven beds taken up ...

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