Matt Hancock has confirmed that London’s ExCeL centre will be turned into a makeshift 4,000-bed “field hospital” under NHS plans to cope when the peak of the coronavirus epidemic.
The new hospital named NHS Nightingale will open next week to provide extra critical care capacity in the capital where the NHS is most stretched.
Yesterday it was reported that the conference centre was turned into a massive critical care unit far bigger than any such facility already in existence in any NHS hospital.
Experts from the Ministry of Defence were understood to be helping the project. Mr Hancock also called on 250,000 volunteers to sign up to help the NHS through the coronavirus crisis.
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