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<p>The Government is working in partnership with the health and care sector to ensure
the supply of National Health Service beds matches demand during this unprecedented
global emergency. For example, community health providers and social care providers
have been asked to free up community hospital and intermediate care beds that could
be used flexibly. These measures together could free up to 10,000 beds.</p><p>Other
measures include the refitting and opening of seven Nightingale Hospitals in England
in the next few weeks.</p><p>This extra capacity is on top of 33,000 additional beds
freed up across NHS hospitals by postponing all non-urgent elective operations, urgently
discharge all hospital in-patients who are medically fit to leave and block-buying
capacity in independent hospitals.</p>
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