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 "title": "Hospital beds occupied overnight, England",
 "category": "health",
 "summary": "The share of NHS beds open overnight in England that were occupied on an average day in the latest quarter, for all beds and for general and acute, learning disability, maternity and mental illness beds, from NHS England's KH03 return.",
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 "status": "Official statistics",
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  "The average number of beds open overnight that were occupied each day of the quarter, as a percentage of the average number available, as NHS trusts return them to NHS England on its KH03 form, for all beds and for each sector.",
  "NHS England publishes each quarter in a file of its own; the hub shows the newest."
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  "label": "General and acute beds occupied",
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  "note": "93,886 of 103,338 beds on an average day"
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