Revealed: What Really Happened In The Nightingales - The Huffington Post

Only three of England’s seven Nightingale hospitals have ever been used to treat Covid patients.
Cost to the taxpayer is more than £500m to set-up and keep on standby.
Four of the Nightingales have never treated people with Covid-19.
Only two of the hospitals have been used to treat Covid patients in during the second wave.
Nightingales totalled up to £1.27m per inpatient as of January 2021.
Only 272 inpatients were treated at the Nightingales up until January 2021.
Nightingale Birmingham, which was the most expensive to set-up at a contracted budget of £109million – has never been used at all.
Each Nightingale building cost between £409,000 and £1.2m a month to keep on standby.
The bill to set up the hospitals was £346m, according to contracts awarded by the government to NHS trusts.
NHS England has forecast total costs will run to £532m for the financial years 2019-21.
At least £850,000 was also spent with consultancy firms on the construction of the Nightingales.