London’s Nightingale hospital forced to turn coronavirus patients away amid nurse shortage - Express

The hospital has been forced to turn away 50 patients with COVID-19 and needing essential treatment. Of those 50, 30 had been rejected due to the lack of staff at the hospital. There are also fears the hospital is fast becoming a white elephant. The hospital has also been forced to turn away a transfer of 30 patients from London hospitals according to documents by The Guardian. 

Although the hospital was built in just nine days, questions have been raised over the lack of use for the hospital. 

Until Monday, NHS Nightingale had only treated 41 patients despite being designed to include almost 4,000 beds. 

Of the 41 patients who have been treated, four have died while seven have been discharged to a less critical level of care.

There are a further 30 still being cared for at the hospital.

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A further 20 patients were also rejected on medical grounds for being too unwell to transfer or as they did not meet the new hospital's clinical admission criteria according to The Guardian. 

A statement from NHS London said: “The most important point about staff at the Nightingale is that thanks to their care and expertise, patients in that hospital are being successfully treated, discharged and ultimately having their life saved.

“There remains spare capacity in the critical care network across the capital to look after all coronavirus patients and others who need our care, and while it is incredibly reassuring for both staff and patients to have backup capacity at the Nightingale to alleviate pressure on ICU departments where needed, patients can be transferred to other hospitals in the city if they are better placed to receive them at that time – as is always the case.”

Last week, NHS organisation in London were asked to send more than 200 doctors and nurses to the temporary hospital. 

According to a leaked letter, seen by the Health and Service Journal, a letter to senior health leaders in the capital stated using NHS Nightingale was vital in restoring normal typical services for trusts across the capital. 

NHS England's regional director, Sir David Sloman said that without the facility, London would face "insufficient critical care capacity" once normal procedures are phased back in. 

He wrote: "COVID-19 will have major impacts that last for at least 18 months and will change the way we deliver health care to our patients.

“When social distancing is relaxed, our plans for the future of London’s healthcare will rely upon new models of care and treatment and sustained reliance on the expert site for critical care that the NHS Nightingale Hospital will provide.

“Utilising the Nightingale will enable us to be well-positioned to avoid a perfect storm of insufficient critical care capacity that would otherwise prove an unnecessary restraint on the recovery of elective capacity, emergency care, COVID-19 and winter pressures.”

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