More than 5,000 critical care beds occupied every day from mid-month to end of January
Nearly 10% of English NHS trusts had no spare capacity for critical care patients in the final week of January, as Covid pressures continued to bite.
More than 5,000 critical care hospital beds were occupied every day from mid-January onwards, and at one point almost 2,000 more critical care beds were in use than at any point in the previous five winters, NHS England figures show.
