An article published to-day about the current status of our Nightingale Hospitals.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-standby.html
The Manchester Nightingale has 750 beds, but unlike the first Nightingale hospital, which opened in London, it was never designed to take patients with covid-19 requiring critical care and was always earmarked to deal with non-covid related patients, mainly those who were in the process of being discharged and needing services such as therapy and social care assessments.
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj....e%20covid%2D19.