What happened to the Nightingale hospitals?

Yes, Katie59, Exeter Nightingale is running well. No doubt they had to recruit additional staff, but only one friend I know had an op cancelled there.

They never had the staff to man them because so many were off sick due to Covid, although I seem to remember Exeter had one in operation, is it still going..

I understand that the beds were sold off at a loss.

I think we must be lucky because ours does eye ops like cataracts, hip and knee ops, as well as offering other services. It's not a very glamorous place, but it's efficient and has reduced waiting lists here.

I don’t think it was necessarily that they weren’t needed but they fudged it all (like most things they have done) if they had used them people wouldn’t have been in corridors for 12 hours
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A colleague a nurse was sent down, put up in a hotel for a week, then sent home.