Health
Nightingale hospitals set up to deal with Covid surges will be closed – centralfifetimes.com
The hospitals in England were largely not needed and some were stepped down to rehabilitation centres.
Nightingale hospitals set up to cope with a spike in Covid-19 cases are to close from April, although the sites in London and Sunderland will stay open for vaccinations.
NHS England said existing hospitals have been able to increase their beds so successfully that the Nightingales are no longer needed.
A network of seven hospitals in England was set up last spring amid fears that the health service may end up overwhelmed, as had happened in some other countries.
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