Dec 30, 2021
Covid: Nightingale surge hubs to be set up in eight hospitals, NHS England says
Coronavirus "Surge hubs" will be set up at hospitals across England in preparation for a potential wave of Omicron admissions, the NHS has said. Unlike earlier "Nightingale" hospital units, they will be added to existing hospitals with plans to identify sites for a further 4,000 beds if needed. A series of hospitals sites named after the 19th Century nurse Florence Nightingale were set up in England during the first wave of the pandemic. An email seen by the BBC from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to its staff said that the hubs could be "Activated in extremis". In England, seven Nightingale hospitals were built, starting with the 4,000-bed facility at London's ExCel centre.
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