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facilities that have been turned into makeshift hospitals in previous waves. however, even though the nhs did that, those hospitals were very rarely used much, partly because it is notjust about bed capacity, it is notjust about bed capacity, it is about getting the staff to operate them and you cannotjust invent stuff that you can bed space so they have changed tact in england and eight major hospitals will have extra storage capacity for covid. the so called nightingale units. 100 extra beds at these separate hospitals, 800 overall and they will be set up in the tented area in car parks and parts of the hospital that are not normally used as hospital wards and the staff were there to transfer into these units if needed. it is a contingency measure, they hope not to use them and you can see the measures that they are putting in place just the measures that they are putting in placejust in the measures that they are putting in place just in case we see this rise in hospital admissions.