{"id":47635,"date":"2024-11-11T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/covid-inquiry-told-treasury-blocked-request-for-10000-nhs-beds\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T18:06:00","slug":"covid-inquiry-told-treasury-blocked-request-for-10000-nhs-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=47635","title":{"rendered":"Covid inquiry told Treasury blocked request for 10,000 NHS beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Pritchard was also asked about the seven temporary Nightingale hospitals built quickly, in March and April 2020, across England to treat Covid patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Data seen by the inquiry shows the total cost to the taxpayer, including setting up and decommissioning, is now estimated at \u00a3358.5m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospitals \u2013 in Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Harrogate, London, Manchester and Sunderland \u2013 treated 141 Covid patients in the first wave of the virus and 1,097 Covid and other patients in the second wave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, \u00a350.4 m was spent on one site, Birmingham, which was never used by patients in the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site in Bristol also carried out 6,554 assessments for patients from the eye hospital in the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Pritchard told the inquiry the programme had still been \u201cuseful\u201d, as the sites had been envisaged as \u201cmilitary field hospitals\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cWe thought we were doing it to avoid a northern Italy situation,\u201d she said, referring to scenes in Lombardy, where intensive-care units had been overwhelmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c4gpwz3qyr0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms Pritchard was also asked about the seven temporary Nightingale hospitals built quickly, in March and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2708,3815,1358,1359,364,1931,2182,3814],"class_list":["post-47635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-beds","tag-blocked","tag-covid","tag-inquiry","tag-nhs","tag-request","tag-told","tag-treasury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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