Claim: The number of hospital beds fell by 25,000 in the last six years of the last Labour government.
Fact-check: Who's cutting hospital bed numbers? - Full Fact
Verdict: correct, the number of overnight beds in the english nhs actually fell by slightly more—about 26,000—between 2003/04 and 2009/10.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Date published: 2017-02-22T00:00:00