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Nightingale hospitals being readied for use

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GagaJo Fri 01-Jan-21 08:28:55

Nightingale hospitals across England are being "readied" for use if needed as COVID-19 patient numbers rise.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the military was standing by to staff Nightingale hospitals if the NHS exceeded its capacity of critical care beds.

"We are on, I think, 17,000 ventilator beds currently being used, of a capacity of 21,000.

"If it starts to tip over there, then of course you'll see those Nightingales being more active and, yes, we have a number of medical staff."

He said the Army currently had 5,000 personnel deployed in the COVID-19 response.

uk.yahoo.com/news/covid-19-nightingale-hospitals-being-130400826.html

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paddyanne Sat 02-Jan-21 23:21:32

Thanks for posting that Far North I thought I had put that on earlier but can see I didn't.Maybe more believeable from you as I'm a Nationalist and often told I what I say isn't the "truth"!

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JenniferEccles Sun 03-Jan-21 08:58:13

There was talk a while back about an appeal for retired medics to return to help.

Brilliant idea but then they had a mountain of red tape and paperwork to plough through first including a requirement that they were trained in ‘diversity’

This nonsense also applied to those who had volunteered to help with the vaccine rollout.

Honestly, you couldn’t make it up could you?

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westendgirl Sun 03-Jan-21 10:39:12

~The one in London has been emptied and some equipment sent to other hospitals .
There was a letter in the Times from a retired GP
who said he had waded through the mounds of bureaucracy to be offered a job as a car parking attendant !
What is wrong with the managers ?Surely all this planning should have been done much much earlier so that strategies were in place, ready to roll out as soon as the vaccine was ready.

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Genty Sun 03-Jan-21 16:59:04

The cost of building nightingale hospitals was 220 million!

www.england.nhs.uk/publication/freedom-of-information-costs-of-nhs-nightingale-hospitals/

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Casdon Sun 03-Jan-21 17:59:11

To be clear, the development of nightingale hospitals was a political solution, not an NHS solution. Feeding ‘we can cope, this is what we are going to do’ solutions is the best way of reassuring the (largely gullible) public.

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Genty Mon 04-Jan-21 09:47:20

According to Matt Hancock on tv this morning, the nightingale hospitals are ready for covid patients, the covid patients in the main hospitals have underlying health conditions and they are better equipped to treat the patients there.

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Ellianne Mon 04-Jan-21 10:04:35

Yes Genty, the Nightingales can't possibly be taking the really, really sick patients or those with complex needs. Otherwise patients being moved from Kent to Exeter (5 hours on a good day) just wouldn't survive the transfer.

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Summerlove Mon 04-Jan-21 15:56:12

This nonsense also applied to those who had volunteered to help with the vaccine rollout.

Almost like needing medical professionals to understand that basing diagnoses on white men for everyone isn’t exactly safe, is a bad thing.

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