NHS needs 13,000 beds to tackle A&E waiting times and ambulance delays – report

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The NHS needs 13,000 more beds across the UK to improve “grim” A&E waits, ambulance response times and handover delays outside hospitals, a new report has found.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Beds in the NHS report, published on Tuesday, said the health service has lost almost 25,000 beds across the UK since 2010-11.