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Britain is set for SIXTY Nightingale courts: £113m boost for modifications to hotel conference rooms and event spaces to accommodate more trials Modifications to be made to hotel conference rooms and event spaces for trials At Manchester Crown Court walls will be knocked down to create ‘super court’ Justice Secretary Robert Buckland hailed it as … Read more
Britain is set for SIXTY Nightingale courts: £113m boost for modifications to hotel conference rooms and event spaces to accommodate more trials Modifications to be made to hotel conference rooms and event spaces for trials At Manchester Crown Court walls will be knocked down to create ‘super court’ Justice Secretary Robert Buckland hailed it as … Read more
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
London’s NHS Nightingale hospital will have just 300 beds for treating patients, a fraction of the 4,000 available in March, when it re-opens next week, MailOnline can reveal. The flagship hospital at the ExCeL centre will start admitting recovering emergency care patients who have tested negative for coronavirus in the coming days, but it will … Read more
Nightingale hospitals in London and across England have been ‘reactivated’ to be ready to admit patients as the capital’s NHS facilities struggle under the pressure of a new wave of coronavirus cases. The Excel centre site has been readied after laying deserted for months as Britain yesterday recorded 981 Covid deaths in the deadliest day … Read more
Nightingale hospitals are being quietly taken apart as medics warn there are too few doctors and nurses to keep the make-shift facilities open. Health bosses have already started stripping London’s of its 4,000 beds, ventilators and even signs directing patients to wards, while those in Birmingham and Sunderland are yet to re-open. An eye-watering £220million of taxpayers’ … Read more
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
The temporary purpose-built NHS Nightingale hospitals constructed for £220million to help fight the coronavirus pandemic cannot open because there are not enough staff to adequately service them, doctors have warned. The enormous structures were hailed at the start of the pandemic as a solution to the growing crisis in hospital capacity up and down 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