Figure 4.
Hospital-level ventilator bed occupancy (based on baseline capacities) across England. The number of hospitals with occupancy of mechanical ventilation beds 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 1 April to 5 June. All data were missing for 24 May. NHS, National Health Service.