Nightingale hospitals are being quietly taken apart as doctors and nurses warn there are not enough of them to keep the make-shift facilities open. Health bosses have already started stripping the emergency unit in London of its 4,000 beds, ventilators and even signs pointing patients to wards, shocking photos reveal, while the hospitals in Birmingham … Read more
On Boxing Day, my poor wife looked as if she’d been in a boxing match. She was a mass of bruises and had broken her wrist. Actually, it’s not quite true to say that she had broken her wrist. I am ashamed to tell you that I broke it for her. Not on purpose, of … Read more
NHS staff must start receiving the coronavirus vaccine urgently because so many are off sick, hospital bosses in England have claimed amid fears there are not enough nurses and doctors to open the Nightingale sites. The temporary purpose-built hospitals constructed for £220million to help fight the Covid-19 crisis were hailed at the start of the … Read more
Nightingale hospitals are still lying empty despite the rising coronavirus cases and fears over a new highly-infectious mutant strain. East London’s ExCeL centre – the first site opened by NHS England amid the crisis, is seen practically deserted in pictures taken today. The site would be the largest intensive care unit in Europe if fully operational, capable of … Read more
Nightingale hospital lies empty and is still only ‘on standby’ despite London being thrown into Tier 4 measures and Christmas cancelled over rising cases Nightingale hospitals in London, Birmingham and Sunderland are ‘on standby’ Site in Manchester is open for ‘non-Covid care’ with Bristol open for local care Seven Nightingale hospitals were built in the … Read more
Boss of London exhibition centre turned into Nightingale hospital is urging firms to start booking events again By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 5 December 2020 The boss of the giant London exhibition centre that was turned into a Nightingale hospital is urging firms … Read more
Exeter’s Nightingale hospital opened to Covid-19 patients for the first time today, it was revealed. The 116-bed unit — which was moth-balled for months — is the second to start admitting patients in England, after Manchester’s make-shift facility re-opened last month to provide treatment for non-Covid patients. Bosses at Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust … Read more
Nightingale hospitals are treating fewer than 30 patients and only one of the seven facilities across England is open – despite the recent rise in Covid hospital admissions Nightingale in Manchester caring for few dozen patients who now test negative Nightingales in Sunderland and Harrogate were asked to be ready for patients On Friday there … Read more
Most of Matt Hancock‘s Nightingale hospitals may never fully open because there are not enough NHS workers to staff them, it has been claimed. An analysis by the Sunday Times also shows that each patient admitted to the massive hospitals has so far cost £1million to treat. Seven venues including London‘s Excel Centre were converted into … Read more
The NHS Nightingale Hospital in Manchester will reopen in the next week as the city heads into a local lockdown. A local NHS boss today announced the temporary hospital, set up in the Manchester Central Conference Centre, will be brought back into use before the end of next week. It will become the first one … Read more