16000 new staff required for new Excel Hospital

And there are at least 3 very big empty hotels nearby normally used for exhibitions and City airport.

I believe that there will be accommodation for workers to sleep on site; not ideal, but this is an emergency.

Army personnel from overseas are being brought back to the UK at the moment.

Boris &co have always been unable to count nurses. Doesn't surprise me that they never calculated staff before they announced this. Seems the army will be used all over the place. Not that many of them either.

I can see they're trying to group the different skills in different places. Majes sense.

Yes and cancer patients to the private hospitals.

From what I've heard, the Army is going to be involved with staffing the Nightingale Hospital. The other piece of news I read yesterday is that the most critical cases will be sent to the main hospitals who have critical care capacity and the less critical will be taken to the new hospitals.

The problem here, and being from the area I can see it at first hand, is that staff simply can't afford to live in the locality. London property prices are sky high and transport into the city costs a fortune. It is very hard to recruit nurses, teachers etc. Also retired London doctors usually move away from the city. I'm guessing they will thin out the numbers of staff at surrounding hospitals and transfer a number of them over to the Excel?

EllanVannin - are you suggesting this hospital shouldn't have been built?

Putting the cart before the horse again---as usual !