What are your views on the current situation in hospitals? Have your say in our comments below Local health systems in Greater Manchester have the ability to request space in the temporary hospital, which serves the whole North West and is being used as an intermediate ‘step down’ facility for people able to be released from hospital, but not yet well enough to go home or into residential care.
Mark Edwards, chief operating officer of the LCO, said there are currently nine Manchester patients in the Nightingale.“That will grow quite rapidly ahead of the weekend and I suspect the first ward - which is where we will need the 36 beds - is likely to be filled early next week, if not before,” he said.The Nightingale is largely being staffed.
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