Some of the 4,000 beds in the new NHS Nightingale hospital have been taken up by Covid-19 patients. The first patients were admitted on Tuesday evening to the health facility in Newham, east London, which was created in just nine days to help cope with the pandemic.
A spokeswoman declined to say how many people were being treated at the custom-built field hospital at the ExCeL Centre in the capital’s Docklands.
Opened by Prince Charles on Friday and named after nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, it will need an army of up to 16,000 staff in clinical and ancillary roles to keep it running.
In Manchester, the 'Nightingale of the North' is currently under construction and is set to open on Easter Sunday. The M.E.N.