EIGHT More Nightingale Hospital Hubs Stand Empty as Surge Predicted by Government Models Fails to Appear
Eight Nightingale hospital surge hubs were built by the Government this winter for an undisclosed amount of money that now stand empty in anticipation of a wave that never came. MailOnline has more.
This is the first look inside one of the NHS‘ new Nightingale surge hubs – which officials concede might never be used as the Omicron wave continues to recede.
The temporary site on the grounds of Royal Preston Hospital is one of eight commissioned across England last month, when the fourth wave looked as if it could threaten the health service.
It has been assembled in the car park at the city’s biggest hospital in less than four weeks and can house roughly 100 Covid patients – but it is currently empty.
Local NHS bosses have indicated that the new hub might never be used and medical unions have warned it could swallow up staff and pull resources away from other parts of the health service.
Other make-shift structures are being built in London, Leeds, Solihull, Leicester, Stevenage, Ashford and Bristol for an undisclosed amount of money.
England’s original Nightingale hospitals, built in 2020, cost a total of £500million, which included running costs, stand-by costs and decommissioning costs. But they saw only light use before being mothballed.
The new, smaller sites will remain on standby to look after Covid sufferers who are not well enough to go home but need minimal supervision during their recovery.
Kevin McGee, chief executive of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust which looks after the Royal Preston, previously said: “My hope is that we never have to use it. We’re planning for it, and that’s quite right because we need to make sure that we put the appropriate capacity in place should we need it, but I’m hopeful we can manage within our core bed base.”
However, Dr Brian McGregor, of the British Medical Association (BMA), said staffing more beds would mean “falling further behind” on routine work.
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They could’ve easily discerned that there wouldn’t be an uptake just by looking at the South African data. Wasn’t rocket science. Although they seem to have invested in rapid body disposal technology and anti-clotting agents for some reason. And of course the Midazolam. The benzo at the endo.
Yes, but the South Africans are not as intelligent as the English duo of Witless and Unbalanced. Never mind that the first heart transplant was carried out there, over the past five decades their medical profession has apparently regressed, whilst ours has leapt forward with the invention of 10 year old computer models with 15,000 lines of GIGO code, together with PowerPoint slides.
Mr Neil Ferguson (I refuse to call him a professor) still has not released the original code base. The only code we have is the semi-tidied up, semi-refactored, semi-translated stuff done by MS engineers. I looked at some of it back in May June 2020: anger doesn’t begin to explain my feelings.
There was at that time in 2020 a general desire for a shutdown. The February 2020 crash was by some estimates bigger than 1929. At the same time you had an economic system that left whole populations in a state of weariness and fatigue. We gave birth to an egregore.Occultism is a side of things that we seldom talk about, along with law. In western countries these are spirits that seem to attack themselves. For example, I bet that most Labour MPs will continue to wear masks and go through the theatre. They see this as an outward display of their disgruntlement. A lot of this nonsense would disappear tomorrow if we had a means of addressing it.
‘Adulterer Ferguson’ ? Perhaps all his ‘data’ is adulterated too?
His models certainly are.
Not to mention his whores.
Depending on the company you keep that could be considered abuse.
Tut tut.
Take note.
I’d bet he swings both ways. Perhaps even three ways if there were sheep around. Or four if there were transvestites.
What about the other fifteen genders. If you dont include them, its an instant ban.
I thought it was now 200 genders?
Ferguson couldn’t be more unworthy of the title “professor”. As for the tidied-up code base, it was still a largely undocumented spaghetti mess back when it was first made available for general review. I doubt it has improved much since then.
Unfortunately, ‘profess’ in the sense of ‘claiming knowledge of’ is exactly what he does.
I must profess some scepticism about his claim.
Yes I also looked at the code on GutHub ( I’ve been a software pro for decades )
It was Shucking Fit
I looked into it as well, it was badly written had someone entered it as an A level project, let alone used to decide the fate of the country.
Every time it ran, using the same input it would give you different answers. The random number generator, wasn’t random. I could go on about it, but you get the drift.
No one running the code could produce the numbers Ferguson did. Microsoft engineers wasn’t able to get it running reliably either!
You’re being very civilised in referring to him as Mr.
I’m certain that contributors to this site could think of more worthwhile titles for a man who is to accuracy what the Taliban is to female emancipation.
There is great power in the South African landscape, such energy. I knew a few who moved over here and they were people of real vitality and imagination. I watched the media onslaught about Omicron; literally from the minute it was announced and it was as clear as day that it was entirely manufactured and suitably timed for the arrival of the ‘booster’. That should’ve been the final straw for everyone. I think to some extent on an unconscious level it was.
If Sars CoV-2 has never undergone viral purification, there’s no reason to believe in any so-called ‘variant’ either. As you say, Omicron was timed to justify the booster. And this process will be strung out indefinitely until people wake up to the fraud that is modern day virology.
I’d have said the fraud was not virology, but rather ‘jabology’.
All of the arguments that have been used in favour of the boosters have run counter to any sense of logic (especially the jabbing of children) and yet have achieved acceptance in the public sphere.
Yes, Convid is nothing but a scam and the notion that there is a novel virus is little more than an unsubstantiated unproven conspiracy theory being driven by unvalidated not fit for purpose tests. They have been rebranding illnesses and murdering patients in the care of The State to create massive levels of fear alongside the orchestrated government-run fraudulent terrorism campaign by the British State against its own people. Its a scam, and they are nothing but scum
It pushes the envelope to say this, but the problem is one that is common to all “pathogenic viruses”. None of them have ever truly been demonstrated to exist in the exact way we are told. Some really good work is being done right now by Stefan Lanka, who is carrying out the control experiments that are not performed by virologists when “cultivating” viruses. With this simple approach, he is laying bare their professional malpractice, and simultaneously taking the fear out of biology. Basically, with the methods that virologists use, subjecting cell cultures to a variety of toxic antibiotics, cells invariably break up and releae membrane-bound vesicles and nucleic acids. This cellular debris is often misidentified as viruses, whereas other times, exosomes and extracellular transport vesicles are so identified, since they cannot be told apart using electron microscopy alone. These particles, then, are the consequence of disease, not the cause. Once we understand that, we can stop following all of these ‘variant’ stories and everything based upon them. I strongly believe that if we get through this episode, modern virology will go the same way as phrenology. Christine Massey here replies to Steve Kirsch on why viral isolation has not… Read more »
This is one of the most important issues now. Its up to the authorities to prove their science is legit, which they dont seem to be able to do. Otherwise they would have already done it and we would not be having this conversation. Its a big problem that genuinely sinister people are trying to run the world on the back of this virus scam when it has no solid supporting evidence. It is now imperative that this issue is forced into mainstream attention. The pressure must be exerted so that these people are forced to either prove to their critics that their science is legit, or the whole thing collapses, also preventing them from runnig future scams and operations. With kates recent post that HMG are now trying to amend the Human Rights Act to make it possible to force British citizens to be injected for the greater good in concentration camps – with whatever murderous shite these agents of evil choose to inject – and the people making these decisions are defacto war criminals who have alrerady proven they are only sinister in nature – this must be fought with the gravity such an assault on our lives… Read more »
15,000 lines the first 4 of which are probably,
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Nice visual of the charges facing the criminals in the British Government and its deceitful treasonous advisers:
I gave my statement over the phone this week.My focus was the cull in care homes manufactured to create fear and panic
Hats off to you for that, great work
Never mind lifting mask mandates, ban them!
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Somewhere to put the bed blockers whilst they try to resume normal operations.
They only ever had propaganda value. Increasing the fear porn.
There was never any chance that they would be used as they never had the staff to run them.
They’ll have even fewer staff if they don’t rescind the vaccine mandates.
Exactly, just part of the fear theatre. I’d be surprised if they even were able to function properly. They were shut before they were even opened to prove how wonderfully the lockdown measures were working!
I’m sure I read somewhere that they didn’t include any toilets…..that can’t be true can it? Did I dream it? Thing have been so odd over the past 2 years that I may well have imagined that.
No toilets, no kitchens, no windows/natural light, no pharmacy, no x-ray capability…
One of the recommendations that Florence Nightingale is said to have made is that patients should receive mental stimulation while in hospital, no sign of that in these facilities.
My conclusion has always been that these spaces were only ever intended for a certain type of patient – those near the end who were previously forced into a DNR. Except, they just didn’t materialise…
Agreed – a main function was preparation for mass “DNR”-ing.
I doubt it takes the army long to set up a field kitchen and field toilets even in an urban environment.
Judging from that picture at the top, they also felt the need to have internal illumination in the ventilation ductwork, just to make it look pretty.
It’s almost as if they never expected to need to use them in anger.
Well spotted!
I’m dying to know (from a medic) what kit they can see there, and what it might be used for. It is a mystery to me what these places are *for*. Quarantine? Bed-blockers? People at death’s door? Or is it just for show, without any real use?
No ‘kit’. No monitors, no ventilators, no drip stands, no infusion pumps etc. Cant get magnification high enough to see any evidence of oxygen supply. Basic hospital bed, chair (usually for visitors but seems somewhat unlikely) and curtain
In hospital March 2020 and banned from using toilets for 48 hours until I basically told ward staff to duck off.
Is that allowed?
You’re probably right, but this is the sort of measure I actually support.
What I mean is, when the next “pandemic” comes (and it’s coming alright, the usual suspects have already promised this), if the Government reacts by saying “OK, we’re going to build a few more hospitals just in case, but otherwise it’s business as usual” then I’m happy.
The fact is, politicians will always do something otherwise they haven’t covered their arses if they make the wrong call. And in this case it negates the “pressure on hospitals” argument.
Just think if this had been their only response in March 2020 along with a bit of guidance. I wouldn’t have complained (much).
They will probably be used all right, albeit not for the originally stated purpose.
Would you say the army getting stationed in the Merseyside Pontins holiday camp, ready to take on “Covid duties”, was only about propaganda too?
There is more demand for car park spaces than Covid beds, so what do they do….
It’s a great big nothing burger with no fries. A damp squid.
A giant vampire squid, perhaps?
Squid are supposed to be damp.
Unless you’ve ordered yours ‘desiccated’, that is, after the ink has dried.
It is pretty messed up. I was out for most of the day and most of the elder folk were still wearing cloth muzzles. This is a major psycological trauma and it isn’t going away. And the overlords know the precise measure of how much power they have now. Why the varied approach accross the world – apparently Australia and Canada are going to be the testing grounds for vaccinations for newborns. It is a perfect business model wherre liability disappeared a long time ago.
Quite a few younger people too. There was a teenage girl waiting at a bus stop for the school bus, on her own …. wearing a mask. WTF have we (well, not us) done to people?
We need that damned Nudge Unit to start giving us positive narratives
The Nudge Unit could voluntarily turn into a standup comedy ensemble. That would be a positive narrative.
The mask sign at the local shopping center (Oracle/ Reading) was changed overnight from Face coverings are compulsory to Face coverings are recommended. In my opinion, that’s even more sinister because it’s going to encourage the belief that these are worn for a very good reason in people who cling to it. It’s also a stark reminder that Nothing is over until everything is over. The beast lies in waiting and will be ready jump at us again at the slightest opportunity.
They should have changed it to Face coverings are useless fashion accessoires wealthy Chinese people madly love.
They could have put ‘Face coverings are otiose’. That might have sorted out the sceptics from the sheep.
More likely the educated from the ignoramuses.
Didn’t know the word. Thanks. Another suggestion would be
Face coverings are as odious as they’re otiose.
🙂
“In my opinion, that’s even more sinister.”
Indeed – leaving aside the “better to be feared than loved” observation for a moment, there’s huge propaganda and sales mileage in getting punters to think the decision they’ve been conditioned into taking was their own. “Freedom”!
Depressingly similar situation today in Mid Norfolk.
Local Aldi so no encouragement to mask up.
70% plus masked mainly elderly but quite a few middle aged yummy mummies as well.
Sad .
The nudge unit want shooting for this legacy !!!
Lidl and large Tesco this morning. Very dismayed to see almost negligible drop in mask wearing.
‘Hey, you trapped down there – climb up this rope we’ve just thrown down to you. What’s that … you want us to pull the rope up and go away?’
The continued wearing of masks now that it’s no longer mandated could just mean that fewer people are trusting government pronouncements?
Many minds are so disoriented that even while they’re being obedient to an extreme degree they are also saying they don’t trust the government. Most people don’t have any experience subjecting what they’re told by “authority” figures to anything like real criticism or critical assessment.
That’s a ban!
Incitement to kill.
Working title for the next woke Bond film?
Not necessarily. One could just ‘wing’ them.
I was of course speaking metaphorically !!!!
Young person at my gym having a PT session today, wearing a mask around the chin the whole time. The masks are moving beyond PPE and into fashion territory, which was the intention all along.
My town, not so. We’ve been doing loads of work to bring awareness so I’m hoping its had an effect with some. Many love their naps-naps now. Makes them feel all cosy, safe and superior…and very attractive, if they’ve totally swallowed the mainstream BS!
Small market town in Dorset, Waitrose still full of the masked of all ages, I would estimate 90%. Didn’t see any sign at the entrance about face coverings in spite of being told that Waitrose were going to continue to advise their use. No comments to me or OH in our barefaced state. I should add that we would probably be counted as ‘the elder folk’ being 75 and 79 respectively!
Bet they’re still supplying gallons of hand gel and encouraging wipe-downs for trolleys, despite almost zero evidence that covid (any variant) was spread that way.
Yes, the gel is still there and the paper towels to wipe the trolleys, although there is no ‘partner’ there spraying the trolleys and returning them to the line an more. Noticed too that the checkout girl had vinyl gloves on.
Visit to a West Country farm shop today was very positive, majority staff and customers unmasked. Lady on toll said she was happy to see people’s faces. County town saw far fewer masked faces in the street, but in shops, there were depressingly few free faces. But there were some! Didn’t see any signs at all about masks.
Australia and Canada are, unfortunately, full-blown Fascist states.
nice contract
bungwork if you can get itSend the bill to Prof N Ferguson, ICL, London
Or if it doesn’t find him there, try his mistress’ place.
A generation of children will forever associate the name Nightingale with expensive visual propaganda follies.
🍳clang clang clang!🇬🇧
Yes the naming was obviously a discrediting smear operation as part of the ongoing “damnatio memoriae” ‘Cancel Culture’ offensive against admired historical figures.
The terms, horse, bolted and stable door spring to mind. I suspect a group was allocated NHS money and needed to spend it to justify their positions / existance.
Florence is turning in her grave.
She did become a statistician later in her life, perhaps that’s why they’ve used her name.
The line is drawn and the curse is cast. Obviously who gives a toss about this pissant disease but the point is they know now. There will be serious issues that come up and there will be frightened people on social media demanding things and political parties will listen and obediently carry out these requests. We need to stop this tendency and ensure that popular opinion is kept in its rightful place. Can you even imagine a real leader who would even challenge this tendency?
I can imagine one. She died some years ago, sadly.
Yes she was my HERO.
Don’t believe in all this pc crap
Stikes me, the NHS needs more beds in general … and less managers and other parasites.
Scrap NHS DIGITAL to start with
Starting with ‘giving it the finger’?
Fishi finger?
The waste of our money is just astonishing. The previous Nightingales, now dismantled – and I wonder how much of that equipment ended up in landfill, knowing the profligacy of the NHS. And yet, here we are again, more covid porn to keep the gullible on their toes. It’s obvious they will never be able to staff them. Didn’t they also construct in 2020 some emergency morgues (in prominent places, natch)? It all makes me so angry. In fact, the anger I feel towards the government is probably far more harmful to my health that covid – dying of apoplexy might make a comeback.
Fergusson has Munchhausen’s syndrome by catastrophe!
With his reported extra-curriculars, it could be Munchhausen’s by Poxy.
The amount of money pissed up the wall in this whole sorry affair is criminal. Probably literally.
It is certainly criminal.
Much of the Chancery Division of the High Court has become a kind of “luxury legal services department” for “Russian” money.
Anyone who thinks that’s an overstatement should read the judgment in the Abramovich-Berezovsky case – still the world’s biggest ever private litigation battle as far as I’m aware – which reads as an advertisement to oligarchs. “Are you a multibillionaire “with unclear sources of wealth” who wants some legal business handled? Bring it to London!”
True that that’s civil not criminal, but the civil commercial bar is where the money is.
Yeah. And it’s our money too. We’re going to be robbed again via tax hikes to pay for their profligacy.
Pop round to your local MP and ask them to pay your electricity bills.
What would the difficulty be with using at least part of the Nightingale capacity for clearing the surgery backlog in the NHS?
This government is taking the p*ss to such an extreme degree that surely it’s got to come a cropper. The same is evident in joker Jacob Rees-Mogg’s sneer at Labour that “they only care about cake and animals”. No, Joker, it’s about the prime minister telling lies, including to the House of Commons – on the record, clearly, with no twisting of his words needed. He lied to the Commons, just as Jack Profumo once did.
For those of us who want this wretched government to fall, the fact that a guy such as Rees-Mogg, a man who enjoys expressing contempt for people who aren’t like himself and who hasn’t got a clue how to think on his feet, speaks for the government so much in Parliament.
According to Spear’s Wealth Management, as of 2019, Mr Rees-Mogg’s net worth is “well over £100 million”.
Perhaps he could give his mate Boris Johnson a bit, to help pay the national debt?
Better still, help with those pesky home improvement bills.
or buy a roll or 2 of wallpaper – am sure B+Q would have some on special offer that would do the job
Perhaps he keeps it under his hat?
Brilliant !!!
“What would the difficulty be with using at least part of the Nightingale capacity for clearing the surgery backlog in the NHS?”
Not possible when you realise these “hospitals” are little more than dormitories with less than basic facilities and equipment. If you collapsed in a McDonalds you would probably receive better medical care. The Nightingales were constructed for the sole purpose of psychological manipulation.
‘anything China can do we can do better’
I will never forget the MSM’s breathless reporting of China building a complete hospital from scratch in something like 10 days at the outset of the wuflu to cope with the influx of the covid patients.
So after already blowing £500m on the last round of these useless structures, they go and build new ones…
And people just freely accept that inflation has exploded along with warnings of an increase to national insurance and taxes. Oh it was worth it because there was an unprecedented ‘pandemic’.
Let’s not get started on how the government blew our taxes on incredible amounts of propaganda which still continues today.
This is criminal.
A mere half a billion pounds getting “spent” on glorified tents or sheds from which cameras are usually banned seems like a small amount nowadays, what with £4 billion admitted to have been blown on “fraudulent Covid loans”, and £37 billion on “Track and Trace”.
From memory I think the Millennium Dome scam cost “only” about £1 billion and the rail privatisation scam cost about £1-2 billion per year.
The cost of the Covid scam in Britain has already been hundreds of billions of pounds in just two years.
This looting of the treasury – hundreds of millions here, whoopsadaisy, billions there, oh dear – is reminiscent of the way a small number of people grabbed everything that was worth anything at the time of the collapse of the USSR and shortly after. There followed a large reduction in population, albeit not on the scale that some of us believe is in the plan now. But there’s the same kind of “nick the lead off the roof and let the building go to sh*t” attitude. The City of London is certainly in its element.
I read the other day that 80% of all US dollars currently in circulation were printed during the scamdemic. They are totally bankrupt, and so are we.
Al in preparation for the coming engineered ‘crash’ to abolish fiat money and force digital currency and passports on us.
Criminals are criminal!
If I didn’t know better you would almost think they had a cabinet sub-committee tasked with the responsibility of splashing money about like there was no tomorrow or something…
The FOI Request No One is Talking About – But Why? – YouTube
If the NHS wanted to reduce deaths they might consider organising themselves so they can treat people for other illnesses. An otherwise heathy family member was urgently lined up for a heart op in December. Staff had to isolate because covid rules. No sign of it happening.
You have to understand that these organisations rely on good faith as much as anything else. There was a time when nurses got paid a salary during their training. This disappeared to be followed by a bursary. And after that even the bursary disappeared. This was an approach to nursing training that was tried in America and subsequently dropped, because of the naturally disastrous consequences, People say that prisons are a good way to judge the humanity of a society but an even better way is the treatment of nurses. You have to accept that you can’t really monetise nursing and yet we all rely on it and we all value it when it is done well.
Yet more evidence to jail the swines responsible. An utter disgrace.
When you’ve spend billions already, what’s another £500m? Why should they care? They won’t be accountable for ensuring they’re paid for down the line. They weren’t paid for with cash. I’m sure their ‘friends’ who built these will be eternally grateful.
Why should we pay for their continued incompetence?
Maybe we should all cancel our direct debits for council tax and pay it each month in cash, anything to start inconveniencing authority, local or otherwise.
“Why should we pay for their continued incompetence?”
They aren’t incompetent – they are very clever and have stolen a lot of other people’s money, knowing that they are going to get away with it. Go and look at the houses your MPs live in, have a look at what kind of cars they have parked in their drives.
Like the privatised train companies. They aren’t there to run trains for you. They are there to make profits for their shareholders.
I work for the NHS and I can tell you at first hand that they do not have the staff to run the Nightingales, though we could do with some of the equipment. Pure propaganda!
“Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban”.
Wasn’t there something about calling for the death of someone (I can’t recall the original warning)? So blasphemy is forbidden as well as (undefined) obscenity, but calling for the death of someone is ok? And is it all right to be rude now? I think the time has come for an explanation.
I understand that calling for x to be strung from a lamppost might not be acceptable, but it’s difficult to see what is.
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“Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.”
Third version of this warning I’ve seen.
Wasting money like this in the private sector wound result in dismissal
I have no problem with spare capacity being left on stand by and unused.
There is absolutely no problem with the system being ready for a surge in needs.
What we need now is a population that will accept that surge without flipping out and shutting down society.
Here is a thought, if we keep all these hospitals and link all the cities by HS2 we can sell ‘White Elephant Tours’ to foreign tourists.
What a pity white elephants aren’t an endangered species in this country we could get Saint Greta to market them.
I just realised what I have written here, of course, the tours will have to be called ‘Chromatically challenged’ elephant tours.
I must reread that book I bought ‘Critical Race Theory for Dummies’. It’s a riveting read, a bit like a whodunit.
Spoiler Alert:
It turns out in the end we all did.