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Kevin Gunning, a consultant at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge, who is a member of the council of the Intensive Care Society, said that a crisis in the hard winter of 2000, when hospitals suffered a shortage of critical care beds, led to the government investing significantly more money mostly in high-dependency beds, where patients are not on a ventilator, rather than intensive care.
UK needs more critical care beds, warn researchers Sarah Boseley 2010
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The UK has one of the lowest ratios of critical care beds in the developed world, according to a review that warns the need for intensive and high-dependency beds is going to soar.
UK needs more critical care beds, warn researchers Sarah Boseley 2010
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Winter's own hospital has 17 intensive care beds and 16 high-dependency beds.
Winter flu outbreak has not yet reached its peak, doctors warn 2010
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"He has been moved to a high-dependency unit, not because of a deterioration in his condition but so that his condition can be monitored more closely."
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Mr Prescott has been moved to a high-dependency unit, but a spokesman stressed that this was not because his condition had deteriorated, but in order to allow him to be monitored more closely.
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He has been moved to a high-dependency unit, not because of a deterioration in his condition but so that his condition can be monitored more closely.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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It also wants to ensure that pledges are kept for free tickets to carers who are accompanying spectators with high-dependency needs.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph James Hall 2012
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Professor Paul Finan, from Leeds General Infirmary, said possible reasons included: "the degree of surgical specialisation, how guidelines were followed, the quality of high-dependency units after-care surgery, anaesthetic services and whether the surgery was laparoscopic, which is less invasive."
BBC News - Home 2011
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Mr Compton said some elective surgery will be postponed for a week in order for hospitals to "meet the need for specialist intensive care and other high-dependency services".
BBC News - Home 2011
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It also wants to ensure that pledges are kept for free tickets to carers who are accompanying spectators with high-dependency needs.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph James Hall 2012
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