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Nightingale hospitals cost an estimated £220m
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that the government spent an estimated £220 million setting up England’s Nightingale hospitals to help increase NHS capacity.
The numbers cover all of the seven sites built to help the country deal with the coronavirus outbreak, but, according to the Health Service Journal, some of these field hospitals have not taken in a coronavirus patient to date.
The temporary site in London, the first Nightingale hospital to open in April, stopped taking in new patients in early May following limited demand for its services. In mid-May, the Manchester hospital remained the only one of the temporary sites in England treating patients.
The Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire recently announced that it would reopen for CT scans for hundreds of patients a week.
Alongside the £220 million set up costs, running costs in April were revealed to be around £15 million.
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