The NHS transferred 1,079 patients because of ICU bed shortages in January – by far the most during the pandemic

Transfers outside patients’ home area

Transfers within patients’ home area

Transfers outside patients’ home area

Transfers within patients’ home area

1,250

1,079

1,000

547 patients were taken from

one hospital to another during April –

the height of the first wave of the pandemic

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547

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