Doctors question if London Nightingale hospital was best way to treat Covid Denis Campbell Health policy editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images
Doctors and NHS bosses who ran the London Nightingale field hospital have defended its creation but admitted that it lacked the full range of medical expertise needed to treat Covid-19.
They admit that it “remains moot” whether the facility, set up last spring as a 3,500-bed critical care unit, was the best way of treating people left seriously ill by the disease or a good use of scarce NHS staff and equipment.
And they suggest that Covid’s complexity means patients should in future be treated in normal hospitals, rather than makeshift facilities such as the Nightingale, so they can get the specialist help they need.
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