Health bosses have denied a report that transfers of patients with Covid-19 to the newly built NHS Nightingale in London were rejected due to a lack of nurses.
According to reports, applications by several London NHS trusts to move patients to the new facility in Docklands were rejected as there were too few nurses to treat them.
But the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said this was misleading, while NHS London insisted there was spare capacity in the capital's critical care network.
The hospital has a 4,000-bed capacity, split into more than 80 wards containing 42 beds each, and was created in just nine days to help cope with the pandemic.