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available staffed bed

An NHS hospital bed which is designated for inpatient or day case care. It may be an allocated bed from the specialty bed complement, a borrowed bed from another specialty/significant facility, or a temporary bed.
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One psychotic patient, newly assessed for detention under the Mental Health Act, awaits confirmation of an available bed before the legal paperwork is completed.
No room or staff to treat mentally ill at end of their tether
But due to lack of facilities, staff could not admit her and rang around neighbouring hospitals in Birmingham, only to find the nearest available bed was in Manchester.
Help is at hand
Debbie Niblett went into labour but had to be taken by ambulance to the nearest available bed - in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Safety was paramount; HEALTH: Bosses defend delivery of twins in Oldham
A spokesman said: "We are using every available bed and trolley."
Ambulances diverted as full hospitals bar critically-ill patients
But due to a shortage of beds, staff could not admit her and rang around neighbouring hospitals, only to find the only available bed was 110 miles away in the Manchester area.
HOSPITAL SENDS MUM ON 110-MILE TRIP TO
Another national first for the region was the hospital "throughput" rate with nearly 43 cases treated per available bed.
Now it's the land of the company car
Yesterday trial judge Mr Justice Treacy delayed sentencing Sofan, after being told that it had proved impossible to find an available bed within a secure psychiatric unit.
Wife tried to kill husband with knife
"The main cause of delays for emergency admissions continues to be the lack of an available bed.
Trust boss speaks out on bed backlog
Among the main reasons for delay were the lack of an available bed in a nursing or residential home,or lack of funding for a place,in more than 300 cases in September.
Care crisis protest
"We are very aware that the number one cause for delays in A&E is the lack of an available bed for patients to be admitted to.
NHS trust misses targets again
"The trust is very well aware that the number one cause for delays in the A&E department at the University Hospital of Wales is the lack of an available bed into which a patient can be admitted.
Worrying rise in blocked beds at Wales' hospitals; Increase comes at start of winter when more patients will need care
Within two hours, the family were assured that Walton Hospital on Merseyside had agreed to accept him as an emergency, but that confirmation of an available bed was still awaited.
DID HOSPITAL DELAY CAUSE TENNY'S DEATH?; 'Family offered to pay for emergency helicopter airlift'

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