# Daily winter bed pressure in London

> The share of open general and acute beds occupied across London providers each winter day.

- Category: NHS
- Cadence: weekly
- Status: Published on a weekly cadence.
- Dataset key: `nhs-winter-bed-pressure`
- Source: [NHS England](https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/uec-sitrep/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-winter-bed-pressure](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-winter-bed-pressure)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-winter-bed-pressure](https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-winter-bed-pressure)

## Methodology

Daily general-and-acute open and occupied bed snapshots summed across NHS London-region providers, then divided. The observations are daily but NHS England publishes weekly during winter. This is rapid-turnaround, minimally validated management information that can be revised for 14 days; it is not a real-time bed-availability service and must not be used to choose where to seek care.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-winter-bed-pressure): The share of open general and acute beds occupied across London providers each winter day.
- [Seasonality](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-winter-bed-pressure?view=seasonality): Arrange repeated periods to reveal the calendar pattern.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-winter-bed-pressure?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.