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roydo said:
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NHS Chief Executive Sir Simon Stevens said: “It is great news that the first patients have been discharged after successful treatment from world-leading NHS staff.
“The Nightingale London may have been built in a matter of days in response to this unprecedented global health emergency but there are excellent facilities and, of course, the staff working there are every bit as skilled and dedicated as those caring for patients at other NHS hospitals.
“We have not yet had to make extensive use of the Nightingale London thanks to the hard work of NHS staff – who have freed up more than 30,000 existing hospital beds – and the public, who have played their part by staying at home and saving lives.
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Exclusive: Details of Nightingale's clinical model revealed - HSJ
www.hsj.co.uk › news › 7027299.article

"The Nightingale will have up to 2,900 intensive care beds, and receive “lower risk” covid-19 patients from other London hospitals needing to free up capacity. There is a long list of admissions criteria which means patients who are frail and elderly, or have comorbidities, are less likely to be admitted. There will also be around 700 “step down” beds".
 
peteblue said:
He was right, nothing has been delivered has it....from your own source dated 14 April....”Meanwhile, doctors and nurses in 25 EU countries will receive €1.5bn (£1.3bn) worth of PPE within the next two weeks.”
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The article was updated 20'04/2020.

Hancock said, 'But, as far as I'm aware, this scheme has not yet delivered any er PPE'. Hancock not telling the truth.

EU scheme providing £1.3bn worth of PPE was described as ‘inadequate’ by government
PUBLISHED: 16:35 14 April 2020 | UPDATED: 16:12 20 April 2020

Adrian Zorzut

Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaking during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (COVID-19). Picture: PA Wire / PA Images
The UK government has described the EU’s bulk-buying scheme for personal protective equipment (PPE) as ‘inadequate’, despite it delivering £1.3 billion of equipment to 25 EU countries.
 
That rat Hancock today trying to deflect from the PPE and testing issues by introducing the issue of a vaccine.
 
Tea_drinker said:
www.theguardian.com

Nurse shortage causes Nightingale hospital to turn away patients

Exclusive: Covid-19 patient transfers to new London facility cancelled owing to lack of ICU nurses
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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I read that if a hospital transfers a patient there, then staff have to go with them, which is the staffing issues. "The planned transfer of more than 30 patients from established London hospitals to the Nightingale was “cancelled due to staffing issues” The Nightingale hospitals were at least 4 weeks to late, should have been up and running by mid march.
 
ramacca said:
I read that if a hospital transfers a patient there, then staff have to go with them, which is the staffing issues. "The planned transfer of more than 30 patients from established London hospitals to the Nightingale was “cancelled due to staffing issues” The Nightingale hospitals were at least 4 weeks to late, should have been up and running by mid march.
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The problem with staff would still exist though, and it wasn't exactly needed then.
 
tsubaki said:
The problem with staff would still exist though, and it wasn't exactly needed then.
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"White elephant" vanity project.

"Dozens of patients with Covid-19 have been turned away from the NHS Nightingale hospital in London because it has too few nurses to treat them, according to an exclusive from my colleagues Sarah Marsh and Denis Campbell.

The disclosure comes amid a growing belief among hospital management in the capital that the Nightingale, built to great acclaim over just nine days, was becoming a “white elephant”.

The hospital has been unable to admit about 50 people with the disease and needing “life or death” care since its first patient arrived at the site, in the ExCeL exhibition centre, in London’s Docklands, on 7 April. Thirty of these people were rejected because of a lack of staff".
 
ramacca said:
The article was updated 20'04/2020.

Hancock said, 'But, as far as I'm aware, this scheme has not yet delivered any er PPE'. Hancock not telling the truth.

EU scheme providing £1.3bn worth of PPE was described as ‘inadequate’ by government
PUBLISHED: 16:35 14 April 2020 | UPDATED: 16:12 20 April 2020

Adrian Zorzut

Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaking during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (COVID-19). Picture: PA Wire / PA Images
The UK government has described the EU’s bulk-buying scheme for personal protective equipment (PPE) as ‘inadequate’, despite it delivering £1.3 billion of equipment to 25 EU countries.
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But you are missing the key point. We have left the EU. We are out of it. We do not need to be part of some useless go nowhere initiative.......I’d rather the government just said, yeah we got an email and deleted it.....
 
This Nightingales Hospital fiasco: FFS, how much more can this lot get wrong? How difficult is it to anticipate that a new hospital would require new staff?

It's at the almost speechless stage now with their complete and utter balls up of this crisis. If there was a textbook written about how not to approach a pandemic, they'd be the authors of it.

They need replacing. Fast.
 
If I were to find myself alone for a moment with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, I'd feel morally obligated to shove him into an industrial shredder.

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