Question reference: S4O-03386
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 11 June 2014
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Current status: Answered by Alex Neil on 19 June 2014
Question
To ask the Scottish Government at what percentage of staffed bed capacity the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy is operating.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not routinely collect bed occupancy information at hospital level.
The occupancy of acute beds across the whole of NHS Fife in the quarter ending December 2013 was 85.1%, a reduction of 4.4 percentage points compared to the same quarter in the previous year
However, NHS Fife has informed us that during the six month period from 1 December 2013 to 31 May 2014, their data on acute bed availability and occupancy at the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy was as follows:
Available bed days – 95,545
Occupied bed days – 84,338
Rate of occupancy – 88.3%