New Nightingale Hospital Opens
Today Prince Charles opened the new Nightingale Hospital which is the former Excel building build for the Olympics. It is going take up to 4000 patients at full capacity. There are other smaller 'Nightingale' hospitals in Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Belfast. Given that we have lost so many hospital beds after ten years of austerity due to a Tory Government, I am not sure why, after Covid-19 is over, these hospitals couldn't remain open to take up all those beds we have lost, to help the other hospitals which are so constantly running at well above 85% capacity. In fact, as I know only too well, it is usually one out of bed, one in because the hospitals are really at 100%. Anyway, just an idea - although who would staff these hospitals if they continued - and they are really ITU facilities, rather than general medical or surgical wards. I have been making changes to my support staff (my cleaner and my carer) because my carer has been off for a few weeks now, so as