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Nightingale hospitals being readied for use

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GagaJo Fri 01-Jan-21 08:59:20

I have to admit, I felt a sense of relief when the army were mentioned. I really don't know why they haven't been deployed already.

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Genty Fri 01-Jan-21 08:54:46

There would be sufficient staff if the hospitals werent at full capacity with all the covd patients.

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 01-Jan-21 08:49:39

Not are should read isnt

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 01-Jan-21 08:49:01

There are sufficient staff. There isn’t sufficient staff for the NHS, so how can they possibly be staffed?

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Genty Fri 01-Jan-21 08:47:09

On reading the news its saying the hospitals are struggling, patients are being treated in the back of ambulances in a long queue outside hospitals as theres no room in the hospitals! Why arent covid patients taken directly to the nightingale hospitals to be treated. Its appalling that they are not being used for the purpose they were built for. The whole situation has got out of hand, since covid started the government have been faffing around playing with our lives and playing God!!!

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Lilypops Fri 01-Jan-21 08:36:39

Frightening statistics at the start of 2021,

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BlueBelle Fri 01-Jan-21 08:34:56

I thought they d begun pulling the London one down !!!

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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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