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May 5, 2021 · A properly staffed NHS, which didn’t enter the pandemic in a staffing crisis and with fewer hospital beds than comparable countries, might have been able to make more use of the Nightingales. But, in the end, the country has been left with relatively unused emergency facilities, hugely overworked existing facilities that were full of patients with Covid-19, and rising waits for routine care.
Mar 25, 2021 · Beds on a ward at the NHS Nightingale Yorkshire and Humber in Harrogate, which was never used to treat Covid-19 patients. Only three of England’s seven Nightingale hospitals have ever been used ...
Oct 13, 2020 · NHS Nightingales staffing 'incredibly challenging' - health chief. Areas may struggle to staff NHS Nightingale hospitals should they be required during a second wave, a director of public health ...
- Half A Billion Pounds Well Spent?
- Beds But No Staff
- Increasing ICU Capacity
Earlier this month health minister Lord Bethell told parliament, in a written answer you have to hunt for, that while the set-up cost of the seven English Nightingales was the widely quoted £220m, the total bill including running costs, stand-by costs and decommissioning is expected to reach more than half a billion pounds by 2022. Yet, according t...
“The first thing to say is the architects and engineers and everyone did a fantastic job to get it up and running in such a short period of time. Credit where it’s due,” says Glynis Meredith-Windle, executive director of clinical planning consultancy ArcHealth and a former nurse. “But the whole concept has been very problematic,” she continues, as ...
This was one of the dilemmas facing the people who devised the Nightingale concept. “If you add to an existing hospital but don’t upgrade the infrastructure you are not helping,” says a source who worked on the project but who asked not to be named. “We did talk about how do you expand ICU capacity. We were talking about hospital car parks for that...
May 5, 2020 · The Nightingale hospital in London may be due to 'hibernate', and the others unlikely to reach capacity, but doctors involved say the experience of creating a hospital from scratch has given them invaluable lessons. Peter Blackburn reports. Location: UK. Published: Tuesday 5 May 2020. One ambition was clear for Gareth Grier when he became ...
Jul 9, 2020 · There is much to celebrate on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale, social reformer, statistician, pioneer, and founder of modern nursing. 1 She laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of the first secular nursing school at St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Her popular but overly romanticised ...
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Dec 30, 2021 · Staff across the health service are working around the clock to provide the best possible care to patients and roll out the NHS covid vaccination programme.” NHS trusts have also been tasked with identifying other venues, such as gyms and education centres, that could be converted into additional Nightingale sites to increase the total number of extra beds to 4000.
