The chart illustrates for any NHS Provider, the trend in the proportion of a occupied beds which relate to a chosen specialty (the specialty of the consultant the patient is under). This is compared to the national average across all NHS Providers of a chosen type (Acute, Mental Health, Specialist).

Just choose a specialty, and select an NHS Provider and a type of provider to compare to.

Full instructions and explanations of each of the tailoring options shown to the right of the chart are given below. You can also interact with the chart by hovering over any data point to see the Tooltip, this can provide specific information on each data point.

The source data for this chart is NHS England’s Bed Availability and Occupancy dataset. This is a publicly available dataset published quarterly. The source data can be found here, along with explanations of each of the published measures used in the chart. Users should familiarise themselves with this background when interpreting the chart.