PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Hospital Beds: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust (11 July 2023)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many beds there were at (a) Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust and (b) Shropshire Community Health Trust in each year between 2015 and 2023; and what targets there is for the number of beds at each trust in winter 2023-24.

Asked by:
Helen Morgan (Liberal Democrat)

The average number of beds at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH) in 2015 to -2023 is shown in the table below.

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust
Year	Total average General & Acute Beds per year
2015/16	715
2016/17	729
2017/18	650
2018/19	665
2019/20	706
2020/21	691
2021/22	725
2022/23	759
2023/24 YTD	773

Source: NHS England

The NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board is planning to create an additional 52 sub-acute beds on the SaTH footprint by this winter. That will enable the trust to increase patient flow through its General and Acute bed base.

The information is not available in the format requested for Shropshire Community Health Trust (SCHT). SCHT is not planning any change to its bed base in 2023/24.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
19 July 2023