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Topic History of: NHS Nightingale is NOT a white elephant Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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JK2006
Unlikely given all the equivalents around the world. No, sorry, the WHY is clear; there are far fewer critical cases than the media inflated; far fewer in reality; far fewer needing the absurd extreme measures.
Dr Berkeley
There's a spanner in the works somewhere on this one. Although London's hospitals have doubled their ICU capacities, they still can't seem to get their sickest patients moved into the Nightingale. Shelagh Fogarty has been discussing it on LBC.
To quote LBC, The Independent's Health Editor said, ""Staff in other departments are saying they are struggling to the get the Nightingale to accept patients because in effect its admissions criteria is set at a level whereby the most sick patients won't actually meet the criteria". So there's serious issues with clarifying what the admissions criteria are. There's your answer Ken.