Figure 3.

Hospital-level general and acute bed occupancy (based on surge capacities) across England. The number of hospitals with general and acute bed occupancy in excess of the thresholds for ‘safe and effective’ functioning, that is, 85% as defined by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine,⁶ and 92% as defined by NHS Improvement and NHS England (yellow and red, respectively),⁷ across England, from 26 March to 5 June. All data were missing for 29 March and 24 May. NHS, National Health Service.