Many thanks Healdplace for the detailed response and will do.Check out the England and UK hospital data posted in here last night. I post them every evening for the England regions and the four nations and post patients and ventilators for each nation in the afternoon as they are updated - I think ventilators is the closest to seriously ill.
NW is going up in these. Most other places falling. There are around that number you cite so that is likely it. Though if it relies on Gov UK it will be 1 or 2 days out of date.
I post changes daily but England had 665 yesterday and around 800 when the other nations were added.
It is hard to be accurate as Gov UK is often late with data from Wales in particular. But they have only small numbers so never far out.
Do you obtain data for ICU as well as ventilators.