Bed Crisis

This has caused a line of issues including one being adding more pressure to the ‘Bed Crisis’. In 1955 there was 15,000 beds available for service, in 2012, a re-evaluation was done and beds have dropped at least 40% being about 22,300 beds available across the United Kingdom. Before the cuts, over the past 10 to 15 year’s of questions have been raised repeatedly about whether a minimum safe level of beds was reached (Bhugra 2013; cited through the kings fund 2015). When beds become unavailable to a patient, they usually get transferred to a facility outside their area, most likely to a private hospital. An Experimental research developed by the care quality commission and health and social care information centre discovering that in the years between 2012 and 2013, 4.4 percent and 4.9 percent were found to have been admitted to out of area from their homes (Care Quality Commission, 2015). Supporting this research
The study also focused on a range of ways to see other options that can help wards and residential homes. After the results were analysed, it has showed that nationally there was a relationship between the two variables; social deprivation and bed availability. Shepherd, Beadmore, Moore, Hardy and Muijen (1996) suggested in their study that to ensure that patients who rightfully need to be sectioned into a psychiatric ward , that those who are staying longer than usual would be supervised and monitored more closely and they believe that to help the bed crisis, a spectrum of care which focuses on different levels of needs and different kinds of issues for example although these issues cannot be solved overnight, however with good community services means refocusing teams, retraining staff, and reorganising the service to provide access out of