why arent we using the 40,000 new hospital beds?
 

Why has the UK have built up over 40,000 new field hospital beds, that cost the tax payer billions, yet to date none of them are being used? Shouldnt these hospitals be used as covid quarantine hospitals to keep the covid out of our main hospitals?

This would surely help protect patients NHS staff and nurses from catching it in the main hospitals too. Thus allowing more of the other hospital procedures and operations to continue. There is also the issue of 1 million plus unused volunteers who offered help. Surely they too could be utilised in some ways? transportation, cleaning cooking etc

It must feel like playing russian roulette for hospital staff atm knowing the covid is rife throught the hospitals. This would give them peace of mind knowing the covid is elsewhere and will reduce the amount of staff on self isolation and sickness

This is one way China defeated the virus.
Why arent we doing the same?

because coronavirus is a hoax

:joker:

They don't have the staff for them. Is the short answer.

Volunteers are all well and good but you still need enough experienced, trained personnel to run and staff these places properly and, thanks to a decade of Tory under-funding, we just don't have them. They could open a dozen new hospitals... Totally pointless without the staff.

Ah, it's been a while since we had a russian bot.

simply transfer some limited staff from the main hospitals. The main hospitals will be far less busy anyway if all covid patients are transferred to the new field hospitals, plus we will see far fewer staff off sick and infected or self isolating. If we take all covid out fo the main hospitals. This is a no brainer and should have happened 6 months ago like it did in china

we simply don't need the beds yet, the nightingale has been re-opened in Manchester in case it is needed

Don't respond to this guy seriously, he's just spouting pro china propaganda.

Ah, a new poster to a Big Brother forum, whose first posts are made in Serious Debates.

Seems legit.

Is it an old poster?

Chuff, ha return?

Why are you typing like the truth?

We need a poll of our elderly members see who tibb thinks it is.

I'm 50..surely I can make the poll..

How do you make a poll?
How do you find out whose old?

Or... Brillo? :omgno:

Gosh.:dance:

Chuff wouldn't return if she was paid to, so it's not Chuffly :hee:

Right, I'm buying 200 quid worth off lottery tickets at the end of the month..probably euro millions..

Let's see eh.:smug:

Nah, not enough of these: - and !

It's just a random propaganda thing, we used to delete these all the time when I was modding. You can tell because in both of their posts, they were saying that we should handle things like China did.

Most of the time they were just russian bots and users posting fake news.

It doesn't look (from what I can check) like it is one of those accounts.

It can't be Truth because they didn't claim that Covid is actually a misandrist conspiracy started by evil women.

I'd be shocked if it wasn't with the whole 'China defeated the virus' bull****, plus joining a dying BB forum for a cancelled series just to make a pro-china topic that reeks of propaganda is just suspect.

We don't need Russian bots we have our own bots now that's what AI is . A way to control the masses. We're world leaders.

...this was an update on my newsfeed this morning...

Last week, Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, confirmed that the Nightingale hospitals set up earlier this year would be ready to receive patients once again as conventional hospitals in some parts of the country faced becoming overwhelmed.

However, despite warnings in the spring that the London Nightingale needed to undergo a transformation to play a significant role over the winter, NHS England has admitted that no changes have been made to the facilities since the field hospital was put on "standby" in May.

...that’s only a relevant section taken, this is the whole article...

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/londons-ni...154445508.html

..staffing will always be a thing during times like this but it doesn’t appear to be a specific staffing problem as a ‘step down facility’...it seems more a ‘not prepared, even though it’s always been said how we need to prepare for the winter months and second wave, problem..’...the government didn’t take time out from their three word slogan making to prepare something so important for what they knew would come...it caught them by surprise, did it...and again, what they expect from the public and what they give are two things that often don’t marry at all...