The nightingale hospitals

[ruggedscotty]

So has anyone got any idea what is happening at the nightingales....

by all accounts they are still in place ready to be used.... however its said that they have been stripped down... what is the truth ?

https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/nightingale

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/nhs-nigh...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/inside-disma...

[jontymo]

The Nightingales:

To the left - they have been dismantled
To the right - they are ready to go to full operations

I guess somewhere in the middle which is where politics needs to get back to and repair what we have left.

Edited by jontymo on Friday 1st January 20:03

[W12GT]

The snippets I have read/seen on the news seem clear that in the south east the current NHS issues aren’t related to equipment and beds, it’s actually shortage of staff and that they are already on a ratio of 1 ICU nurse to 3 patients as opposed to the recommended 1:1 and preferred 3:1.

I’ve also read there is a request for the armed forces to step in and start supporting the Nightingales...

[10126 Torino]

Florence is displeased at spelling .

[Slackline]

They have been stripped down, well at least the one in East London has.

But they never were actually extra beds. The beds were borrowed from hospitals that had closed non essential wards due to covid (Like cancer treatment wards, that kind of non essential).

If you think about it, they could have just renamed those wards that they took the beds from as additional covid bed wards. But that doesn't really add to the drama and you can't give your mates large contracts to move the beds across town.

With hindsight, it was pretty obvious that that's what they had done. Having thousand of hospital beds in a store room ready to go was never really believable..

Mind you, the whole covid thing from April onwards has seemed a bit far fetched with the numbers being quoted!

[Vanden Saab]

10126 Torino said:

Florence is displeased at spelling .

Time for beds

[BobToc]

Can only speak to the Excel, but it’s reopening with much reduced capacity (60-70 beds), step-down beds only, staffed by military doctors.

[ruggedscotty]

thank you for the replies, thats a bit scary with the london one as it had what 500 beds at its peak ?

[BobToc]

3,000. Never had the people to staff it however.

[ruggedscotty]

3,000 beds

they were wetting themselves, if what they had imagined had happened then I wonder if the excel would have been dire indeed.

was it not a skeleton of NHS with the army in to assist if the expected infections had occurred.

Im seeing the current line of thought being that this mutation is having an effect on younger people, and of course due to the greater infection rate the number of hospitalisations is getting out of hand.

How do you think this is going to play out ? already moving patients out to other areas as they are struggling with capacity.

[Glade]

I have a friend who needed an MRI scan, and he got sent to the nightingale in Harrogate, so they are utilising some of the equipment on non-covid cases.