It has 2.3 hospital beds per 1,000 people, compared with 5.7 in France and 7.8 in Germany
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In the decades leading up to the covid-19 pandemic, many countries reduced their numbers of hospital beds. Those who did so fastest—including Britain—were celebrated as paragons of caring efficiency. Beds for those with mental illnesses and learning disabilities were replaced by more appropriate care in the community. Medical advances helped patients in general, acute and maternity wards to get out of hospital faster, and therefore to recover more quickly at home.
Given the current crisis, such schemes now seem ludicrous. “Most policy commentators would say the bed cuts went too far,” says Siva Anandaciva of The King’s Fund, a think-tank. Planners underestimated the demands on hospitals from an ageing population and the pressures of winter in a country which does not properly heat its homes, let alone from a disease like covid-19 .
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