NHS Nightingale Hospital North West

{{Short description|Temporary NHS COVID-19 hospital set up in Manchester Central}}

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| org/group = Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

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| location = Manchester Central

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| opened = 13 April 2020

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The NHS Nightingale Hospital North West was the third of the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospitals set up by NHS England in 2020 to help to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. It was closed in March 2021.{{Cite news |date=2021-02-25 |title=Covid: NHS Nightingale Hospital North West to 'cease operations in March' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-56194378 |access-date=2023-10-31}}

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Building

The hospital was constructed inside the Manchester Central Convention Complex{{cite news|newspaper=Manchester Evening News|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/gallery/huge-new-hospital-manchester-city-18083385|title=A huge new hospital in Manchester city centre is ready to take its first patients - and all this took just two weeks|date=13 April 2020|access-date=14 April 2020|archive-date=4 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204182835/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/gallery/huge-new-hospital-manchester-city-18083385|url-status=live}} and opened on 13 April 2020.{{cite tweet |user=MichaelMcCourt1 |number=1249597933294583810 |date=13 April 2020 |title=1st tweet as CEO NHS Nightingale North West. Proud & thankful to be able to say we take our first patients today. In 14 days huge NHS, Army & NHS partner effort this hospital is open. A lot of attention on us but don’t want to forget we are here to support an already busy NW NHS. }}

Patients

As of 4 May, a small number of patients had been treated at the hospital. Despite patient numbers remaining far below capacity, the hospital was not placed on standby like other Nightingale temporary hospitals in England, instead serving as a step-down facility for rehabilitation rather than an intensive care unit for patients requiring mechanical ventilation.{{cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/nightingale-north-west-isnt-being-18198193|title=Why the Nightingale North West isn't being put on standby like London|publisher=Manchester Evening News|date=4 May 2020|access-date=4 May 2020}}

Two patients are known to have died at the hospital as of 26 May.{{cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/first-covid-19-deaths-reported-18276718/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526081228/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/first-covid-19-deaths-reported-18276718|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 May 2020|title=First Covid-19 deaths reported at Nightingale North West Hospital|publisher=Manchester Evening News|date=19 May 2020|access-date=26 May 2020}}

By late June, the hospital had been placed on standby and was reported to have treated just over 100 patients in total.{{Cite web|last=Dunhill|first=Lawrence|date=29 June 2020|title=Exclusive: Mass expansion of rehab beds for covid planned|url=https://www.hsj.co.uk/coronavirus/exclusive-mass-expansion-of-rehab-beds-for-covid-planned/7027934.article|access-date=2020-06-30|website=Health Service Journal|language=en}}

On 28 October 2020 amidst a rise in cases in Northern England, the hospital was reopened with 750 beds for patients from the region's hospitals without Coronavirus to free-up beds in those hospitals.{{Cite news|last=Gibson|first=Daniel|date=2020-10-28|title= NHS Nightingale North West to reopen|language=en-GB|work=The National Health Executive|url= https://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/nhs-nightingale-north-west-reopen|access-date=2020-11-09}}

See also

References

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{{COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories}}

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Category:Hospitals in Manchester

North West