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 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 care home.
we come in on a morning at nine o clock and we were queueing then and there were no bed spaces at nine in the morning. that is the start of a normal weekday. and you will hear calls coming out for assistance for other groups and you can t get to them. it is delays like this that stop paramedics getting back on their own quickly to the next person who needs help. now, we ve pulled together some of the key data, figures that help explain how the nhs is performing and what that means for patients, starting with those ambulances. anyone who calls 999 for an emergency like a stroke or heart attack should get an ambulance in 18 minutes, that s the target. in december, that soared to 93 minute in england, easily the highest on record. there are 90 patients waiting to be seen at the moment, that is 90, who are still waiting to be seen. our current waiting profile is seven and a half hours. by the time i get home
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