Dozens of patients with Covid-19 have been turned away from the NHS Nightingale hospital in London because it has too few nurses to treat them, the Guardian can reveal. That means that the hospital has rejected more patients, owing to a combination of understaffing and the patients’ health, than it has treated. But there aren’t enough critical care nurses. The Royal Free hospital, in Camden, London, has also had to abandon plans to transfer about 15 patients from its ICU to the Nightingale. “NHS Nightingale has been set up to treat patients if the NHS was overwhelmed but thanks to the great work of selfless NHS staff, there is spare capacity in existing London hospitals to treat all coronavirus patients there instead.”

Source: The Guardian April 21, 2020 17:01 UTC