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London’s Nightingale coronavirus hospital to be mothballed
London’s Nightingale hospital is to be mothballed, as the NHS announces plans for clinics aimed at rehabilitating coronavirus survivors. Staff have been told that the site will not accept any more patients and will instead be “placed on standby”.
The hospital was set up in the Excel conference centre in east London to provide up to 4,000 additional intensive care beds for Covid-19 patients should a surge of cases overwhelm the capital’s existing facilities. Since its official opening on April 3 it
has not needed to treat more than 40 patients at a time. NHS chiefs said that it would remain ready in case of a potential second spike in cases.
They also announced that Headley Court in Surrey, a Ministry of Defence rehabilitation facility during the Iraq war, would become the first NHS Seacole centre.
It will provide temporary rehabilitation for patients recovering from Covid-19 as well as those who have been in hospital for routine treatment........