Birmingham’s Nightingale hospital built for £66m to close without treating a single patient 

Birmingham’s 2,000-bed Nightingale hospital built at a cost of £66million is to close without ever treating a single patient Birmingham facility was commissioned by NHS at the height of the first wave  But in the past year since it was completed not a single person has been treated It will shut down for good next … Read more

Birmingham’s Nightingale hospital built for £66m to close without treating a single patient 

Birmingham’s 2,000-bed Nightingale hospital built at a cost of £66million is to close without ever treating a single patient Birmingham facility was commissioned by NHS at the height of the first wave  But in the past year since it was completed not a single person has been treated It will shut down for good next … Read more

Covid UK: Matt Hancock calls closure of Nightingale hospitals ‘important step’ in pandemic recovery

Matt Hancock today hailed the permanent closure of four of England’s Nightingale Hospitals as an ‘important moment in the nation’s Covid recovery. The Health Secretary said the combined success of the vaccine roll-out and ‘everybody’s commitment to stick by the rules’ meant there was little need to keep the emergency facilities open. Britain has seen dramatic declines … Read more

Matt Hancock says closure of Nightingales ‘important step’ in Covid pandemic recovery

Matt Hancock today hailed the permanent closure of four of England’s Nightingale Hospitals as an ‘important moment in the nation’s Covid recovery. The Health Secretary said the combined success of the vaccine roll-out and ‘everybody’s commitment to stick by the rules’ meant there was little need to keep the emergency facilities open. Britain has seen dramatic declines … Read more

London buses are turned into ambulances to ease strain on NHS as Covid deaths continue to soar

Two London buses have been converted into ambulances to help ease the strain on the NHS in the hard-hit capital as Covid deaths continue to soar.  The single-decker buses can carry four patients each and have been kitted out with all vital equipment including infusion pumps, oxygen masks and monitors.  Bus firm Go-Ahead converted the buses in the … Read more

Police probe hospitality chief’s ‘illegal NYE party’ at four-star Harrogate hotel

Police probe hospitality chief’s ‘illegal NYE party’ at four-star Harrogate hotel where he ‘partied with 10 friends’ with staff ‘forced to serve them all drinks and breakfast the following morning’ Police and council are probing reports of the party at the four-star hotel Managing Director Simon Cotton was said to have hosted the Harrogate event … Read more

Elderly woman tells Matt Hancock he’s ‘the good looking one’ after she gets Covid jab

An elderly woman told Matt Hancock he’s the ‘good looking one’ after getting the Covid jab at the ExCeL centre in east London.  The Health Secretary was on a visit to the centre, the site of the Nightingale hospital which is now being used as a mass-vaccination area, when he started talking to people who … Read more

Hundreds of cancer operations are cancelled in London as hospitals are inundated with Covid patients

Hundreds of cancer operations in London are being cancelled as the city is inundated with Covid patients, according to reports.  Mayor Sadiq Khan today declared a major incident with a stark warning that the capital’s hospitals would run out of beds – as the number of people infected with coronavirus reached one person in 30 … Read more

Covid UK: London NHS hospitals ‘will be overwhelmed in TWO weeks’

London‘s hospitals will be overwhelmed by Covid-19 in less than two weeks even in a ‘best’ case scenario, an official briefing reportedly warns. Medical director at NHS London Vin Diwakar provided the worrying analysis to medical directors of the capital’s hospital trusts over a Zoom call this afternoon. Even if coronavirus patients grew at the lowest likely … Read more

London’s intensive care nurse and doctors battle to save Covid patients

This is the scene in the packed intensive care ward of London’s largest hospital as its doctors and nurses revealed the unit has now doubled in size as experts warned the capital’s hospitals will be overwhelmed by Covid-19 patients in less than two weeks.   Shattered staff at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London say they are … Read more