Dutch hospitals have a combined surplus of over 5,100 beds, according to research by consultancy firm Coppa quoted in Trouw on Tuesday.

The figure is based on the ratio of patients treated to the amount of hospital admissions and length of treatment.
Amsterdam University’s medical centre AMC, which has 1003 beds, has the biggest proportional surpluse at 313, researcher Bas Bouman told the paper. Rotterdam’s Erasmus medical centre could cut 336 out of 1320 beds and Utrecht medical centre 240 beds.
A spokesman for the AMC told Trouw the research failed to take account of the number of non-overnight admissions. ‘The number of beds is no longer a way of measuring a hospital’s performance,’ he said.
Coppa specialises in healthcare and patient planning and logistics.