Plans to transfer more than 30 seriously ill patients from other hospitals in the capital collapsed due to ‘staffing issues’
Despite being built to include around 4,000 bed capacity, the temporary facility set-up to combat the Covid-19 pandemic had only provided care for 41 people up until Monday. About 50 patients in need of ‘life and death’ treatment have been turned away.
, according to NHS documents seen by. A member of staff at the site in the ExCel centre said there are plenty of doctors and other staff but not enough critical care nurses, who are already being ‘run ragged’ in hospitals across the capital. Out of the 41 patients who have been accepted for treatment, 30 are still being cared for, seven have been discharged to a less critical level of care and four have died.
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