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Re: Coronavirus
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/h...box=1588406084
Quote:
London’s Nightingale Hospital is effectively being wound down after taking no new patients in the past week.
Staff were told today that a decision on its future would be made within days.
The field hospital, built in just 10 days at the start of April, had only 19 patients on Friday, down from a peak of around 35 earlier in the month.
London hospitals are increasingly choosing to keep patients in their own intensive care units.
One source said London’s Nightingale was in effect being “wound down”, with staff from the Royal London Hospital, who were due to be seconded to work there, told they were no longer needed on Friday due to the small numbers of patients...
..,It is thought the field hospital may be either repurposed for use as a step-down facility for recovering patients or mothballed but retained for any potential second waves of infection after the UK’s lockdown is lifted.
At the Downing Street press conference today, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, said the Nightingale hospitals were specifically designed for ventilated patients. NHS England medical director Steve Powis suggested the hospital would not be suitable for other uses.
He added: “We need to keep them as an insurance policy for the next month or so.”
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Better to have had them, and not needed them (as much as initially thought), than need them and not have them.
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