The first patients have been admitted to the new NHS Nightingale Hospital set up in just nine days amid the coronavirus pandemic.
A spokesperson for the site confirmed the news at the ExCeL Centre in east London which has added 4,000 critical care beds. The hospital will mainly treat younger Covid-19 sufferers, with similar plans in the works for cities across the UK, including Glasgow.
More than 400 contractors are working alongside nearly 150 clinicians and operational staff to establish the new NHS Louisa Jordan.
It is being built at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow to help deal with the outbreak. An NHS Nightingale London spokeswoman said: "Our first patients have now been admitted to the NHS Nightingale London, as