Posted on: 10 April 2020
The new, temporary hospital is being established in Harrogate to provide up to 500 critical care beds within Yorkshire and the Humber as part of the national response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It will support NHS trusts in the region to treat the most complex patients in their own hospitals whilst caring for other, less difficult cases at the new facility.
The regional NHS Nightingale Hospital has been built and mobilised by a team of specialists from partner hospitals and NHS bodies from across the region with the support of the British Army and main contractors BAM Construction.
It is one of five Nightingale Hospitals to be built nationally to provide additional critical care capacity in the event that there is high demand for intensive care for patients with Covid-19 over the coming days and weeks.
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