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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees

The nightingales are going to be staffed via reservists and military nursing personnel from northern hospitals. The hospitals will act in a step down capacity.

Quite simply there’s not enough nurses or specialist icu nurses to use the nightingales as the primary care facility for COVID sufferers. Whose fault that is, is something that’s up for debate. Some will blame the government (present or past) some the NHS. I think the truth is somewhere between the two.

We agree that there is fault. For the past 20 years, the various Guvmins have screwed up NHS training and recruitment.

Again well within my living past, there were nurses' homes (they didn't need to pay extortionate London rents), the training was free for all medical staff. Now it's high student loans at little incentive to train. This article offers an insiught:

https://theconversation.com/the-numb...o-blame-131077

Data shows a year on year decline in graduates feeling prepared for their jobs as foundation doctors, reflecting an increasingly difficult NHS working environment. Doctors’ jobs have always been hard, but the pay-off was that you were made to feel a special part of the NHS and nurtured within caring teams, given on-site accommodation and parking, and were able to cultivate a vibrant social life within your hospital to compensate for the stressful work and long hours. No more.