[Ammi]

...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...