The Open Beds Report provides a summary of the average numbers of open inpatient beds and day beds/places in the acute hospital system based on data provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE).
The Health Service Executive (HSE) Acute Business Information Unit (Acute BIU) provide the bed data for this report, and the figures show the average number of beds or places open in each hospital for the month or year specified.
Data for 2020 and 2021 are provisional and remain subject to validation by Acute BIU. The 2018 and 2019 figures for Galway University Hospital are also awaiting validation. Tables are included in the Appendix
Average inpatient beds available is the number of funded beds occupied or ready and available for occupation each night of the reporting period. The cumulated figure is then divided by the number of days in the reporting period to provide a daily average.
Please find the report attached