With it only recently being opened by the Duke of Cambridge Prince William, the Birmingham Nightingale Hospital is said to “not being used at all” since.
Having been set up inside the National Exhibition Centre on the outskirts of the city, the site was set up to take up to 5,000 coronavirus patients at a time from 23 hospitals in the Midlands.
Dr David Rosser, the chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust said that it was “a good thing that the hospital had not received any patients.
“It shows that the NHS has absorbed the extra pressure”.
The temporary site, near Birmingham International Airport, has 70,000 square feet of floor space to provide extra capacity whilst easing the pressure on services dealing with the coronavirus pandemic
