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FOI 0093HGS/0053UHB Beds

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June 6, 2018

Last updated: June 6, 2018

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) completed a merger by acquisition of Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (HEFT) on 1st April 2018. The Trust includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible.

Due to historical differences in data collection/reporting across UHB and the former Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust some responses have been provided by hospital site.

Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide the following information for all the Trusts you cover:

1. How many beds does your Trust have?
The trust currently has 1207 funded beds and 1243 Funded + Flex beds.

2. How many in-patients did you have in 2016?
The total number of inpatient spells (male and female) in the 16/17 financial year is 307,966 – 5 which are undisclosed.

3. What percentage of these patients were female?
The total percentage of patients seen in the 16/17 financial year who are female using sex code 2 – 55.52%.

4. What was the average length of stay for a patient? (specifically for female if possible)
The average length of stay for a female patient using Sex Code 2 in the 16/17 financial year is 1.76 days.
5. What percentage of patients are above your stated average length of stay? (specifically for female if possible)
The percentage of female patients above the stated average length of stay in the 16/17 financial year is 21.04%.

FOI REQUEST NUMBER QEHB 0053
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Under the Freedom of Information Act, please could you provide the following information for all the Trusts you cover:
1. How many beds does your Trust have?
In total we have 1213 beds in the QEHB and an additional 170 beds in the Heritage Building (original QE Hospital).
2. How many in-patients did you have in 2016?

65661
3. What percentage of these patients were female?
31554 – 48%
4. What was the average length of stay for a patient? (specifically for female if possible)
6.2
5. What percentage of patients are above your stated average length of stay? (specifically for female if possible)
24.8%

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