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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
The Army could be drafted in to deliver a ‘moonshot’ vaccination drive at empty NHS Nightingale hospital sites, it has emerged. Officials believe soldiers are needed to dish out the tens of millions of jabs to the public when a vaccine is ready. Troops could be deployed to the NHS Nightingale hospitals – which have … Read more
Five of the Nightingale hospitals opened across Britain to urgently boost the NHS’s intensive care capacity during the coronavirus pandemic are now on standby. The flagship location in London was already mothballed earlier this month, while sites in Birmingham, Bristol, Harrogate and Tyne and Wear are also closed. They have hardly been used during the crisis, … Read more
An illuminating 200th birthday tour with the Lady of the Lamp: Exploring Florence Nightingale’s family home and the museum dedicated to her Next week marks the 200th birthday of inspirational nurse Florence Nightingale Her former family home in Derbyshire is now a B&B – you can stay in her bedroom London’s St Thomas’s Hospital hosts … Read more
Britain’s near-empty Nightingale wards could be filled with the majority of Britain’s coronavirus patients in order to make the UK’s permanent hospitals ‘Covid-free zones’. Health Secretary Matt Hancock is planning to reopen key areas of the NHS for routine care – including cancer treatment starting from today. Five of the seven planned Nightingale hospitals set … Read more
The NHS’ near-empty multi-million pound Nightingale hospitals are a ‘waste of resources’ because they are ‘cherry-picking patients less likely to die’ from coronavirus, senior doctors claimed today. Experts have alleged the reason why only dozens people are being treated in the temporary wards set up in warehouses and exhibition centres is because they lack the … Read more
Fears were building today that the NHS Nightingale hospitals opening across Britain will be mostly unused with only dozens of patients treated so far in their 2,000 beds. The first of the seven major sites in England to open at the ExCel Centre in East London has so far treated just 41 patients despite already … Read more
Furious families have today accused the Government of ‘sacrificing’ Britain’s elderly in the fight against coronavirus by discharging COVID-19 patients into care homes and signing the ‘death warrant’ of the most vulnerable in society. NHS hospitals have been ordered to drastically free up beds, meaning thousands of patients have been released, with scores of elderly … Read more