Prince Charles has opened the new 4,000-bed NHS Nightingale - less than two weeks after work started on the giant specialist coronavirus field hospital
Sky News sees inside the new NHS Nightingale hospital
The facility, which will start with 500 beds and has the capacity for 3,500 more, will be used to treatMr Hancock described the new hospital as an "extension" of St Bartholomew's Hospital Those who are admitted to the hospital will already be on a ventilator and will remain at the Nightingale until their course of ventilation is finished.
While all the equipment being used at the Nightingale is"new kit", according to leaked documents, some health officials have expressed reservations about how communications might work in the vast, open building, normally used as a venue for trade fairs and exhibitions.
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