The Prince of Wales is set to officially open the new NHS Nightingale Hospital for intensive care coronavirus patients today from 530 miles away. Prince Charles will launch the 4,000-bed temporary facility at the ExCel convention centre in East London via video-link from his Scottish home at Birkhall. It comes four days after the 71-year-old … Read more
New Nightingale hospitals are to open in Bristol and Harrogate as NHS ramps up the fight against coronavirus They will be University of the West of England and Harrogate Convention Centre The Bristol hospital will be able to look after up to 1,000 and Harrogate up to 500 The sites will be joining Birmingham’s NEC … Read more
Volunteers working at the NHS Nightingale coronavirus hospital have been told to prepare for the fact that up to 80 per cent of patients who are on ventilators will die, MailOnline can reveal. Selfless heroes flocking to staff the emergency 4,000-bed unit in east London have been told to ‘be prepared to see death’, with a mortality … Read more
A new morgue which can hold thousands of tragic covid-19 victims, including those from the Nightingale coronavirus hospital, is being built in East London. The mortuary, about the size of two football pitches, is being developed on forest land close to the City of London crematorium and cemetery and is expected to take the dead … Read more
Facebook pages set up urging children to send rainbow drawings to the new Nightingale hospital are FAKE, NHS says The accounts call for youngsters to post their designs to addresses in the UK One claimed that ‘these will be put up on the walls in the Nightingale Hospital’ NHS Nightingale’s official Twitter page revealed the … Read more
The wings of the nightingale — famed for its beautiful birdsong — are shrinking in response to climate change, a study has found. This change will make its long migrations to Africa more arduous and threaten its very survival, scientists have warned. Male nightingales, in particular, are known to sing for hours on end each night … Read more
Soldiers helping to build the Nightingale hospital in London last night compared the coronavirus crisis to the Battle of the Somme. Colonel Ashleigh Boreham, who has carried out two tours of Iraq and one of Afghanistan, said it was the biggest mission of his career. As commanding officer of 256 City of London Field Hospital, … Read more
Help desk staff are being recruited for new Nightingale hospital on £37,500 a year – £13,500 MORE than average wage for British nurses EXCLUSIVE: Job adverts are for Nightingale Hospital at ExCeL Centre in London Help desk staff work 12-hour shifts, four days on and four days off for £37.5k NHS nurses’ starting salary is … Read more