How many patient bed places there are in each hospital in the NHS Highland area.

Beds data by NHS board and hospital are already published by Public Health Scotland. The most recent quarterly publication is ‘ Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information (quarterly)
- Quarter ending 30 June 2022 ’, which was published on 29 November 2022. This is the latest available data that can be released as we are now within 12 weeks of the next scheduled publication in February 2023.
The beds data can be found on the Data files page by scrolling down to the heading “Hospital beds to June 2022”, where there is a link to the following Excel file: Beds by NHS board of treatment and specialty (csv | 4.5Mb).
This is quarterly data for the five year period up to and including April – June 2022.
Below is an excerpt from this file that contains the latest values for Highland hospitals.
Site
Type
Daily average staffed beds
Lorn & Islands Hospital
All Specialties
47
Caithness General Hospital
All Specialties
44
Raigmore Hospital
All Specialties
469
Belford Hospital
All Specialties
35
Additionally, PHS publish annual beds data by NHS board and hospital, with the most recent publication being ‘ Acute hospital activity and NHS beds information for Scotland: Annual – year ending 31 March 2022 ’. See the Excel file: Table 4
- beds XLSX | 5.7MB .