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Two NHS Nightingale hospitals convert to cancer testing centres to fight backlog

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Two NHS Nightingale hospitals that were set up for coronavirus are being converted into cancer testing centres to tackle the backlog.

The 200-bed field hospital in Exeter will be "partly repurposed" from next Monday and run CT scans from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.

It follows the 500-bed Nightingale Hospital at Harrogate Convention Centre, which began offering CT scans on June 4. They will remain on standby to treat Covid-19 patients in future in case there is a local surge of the disease.

The move in Exeter was announced to MPs by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens. He said: "This is an opportunity and a necessity quite frankly to do something quite different in diagnostics.

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