Preparations are now well underway to reopen the mothballed NHS Nightingale hospital in London as a giant mass vaccination centre and facility for patients recovering from coronavirus. Photographs taken this morning showed ambulances lined up outside the ExCeL centre in Newham, East London, as lorries arrived ahead of NHS staff beginning to use the 100-acre … Read more
‘I couldn’t really afford to be good. I had to be excellent’: FKA Twigs says she was pushed to excel in order to stand out as a mixed race child By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline Published: 18:43 BST, 19 October 2020 | Updated: 18:43 BST, 19 October 2020 She previously said she feels she sometimes … Read more
Public Health England’s Excel bungle has drastically changed the outlook of England’s coronavirus outbreak, with infection rates in the North soaring overnight. Following the revelation that almost 16,000 ‘missed’ cases had been added to the system, infection rates spiralled in every authority of the country except four at the weekend — all of which were … Read more
Matt Hancock today faced the wrath of MPs as he admitted contact tracing of some 16,000 confirmed coronavirus cases was delayed for days by an Excel blunder. The Health Secretary told the Commons that the extraordinary episode ‘should never have happened’ and an investigation was being carried out into how thousands of cases dropped out … Read more
A furious blame game is under way today after 16,000 coronavirus cases were missed due to a computer glitch – meaning thousands more potentially infected contacts were not traced. The extraordinary meltdown is believed to have been caused by an Excel spreadsheet containing lab results reaching its maxium size, and failing to update. Some 15,841 … Read more
Battle of the bird brains! Wild cockatoos perform just as well as those raised by humans in intelligence tests, new study shows Researchers in Vienna tested the intelligence of Goffin’s cockatoos They compared a group of lab-raised birds with a group of wild birds They found both groups performed similarly in intelligence tests The main … Read more
Will empty Nightingale hospital be moved into hibernation? ExCel Centre facility could be mothballed within days after it treated just 51 patients in three weeks The ExCel Centre, which opened on April 3, has the capacity for 4,000 beds But it faces closure after remaining largely empty, with just 51 patients treated Staff told that … Read more
Patients are being turned away from the new 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale hospital in London due to a lack of nurses, it has been claimed today. The field hospital at the ExCeL Centre has been unable to accept around 50 coronavirus patients needing ‘life or death’ care since it opened on April 7. Thirty of those … Read more