Exclusive: NHS plans ‘lots of little Nightingales’ to cope with omicron surge

A&E, Emergency services, Emergency

NHS leaders have been told to make plans for temporary ‘field hospitals’ in hospital car parks and to review the capacity of their mortuaries in readiness for the expected surge of covid patients over the next five weeks, HSJ has learned.

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