Media playback is unsupported on your device The first of the government’s emergency field hospitals to treat coronavirus patients has opened in east London’s ExCel centre. The temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital is able to hold as many as 4,000 patients and is the first of several such facilities planned across the UK. The number of […]
The NHS will treat coronavirus patients in a makeshift field hospital in the ExCeL Centre in East London. The exhibition space, which has been used in the past for Crufts and Comic Con, will eventually hold up to 4,000 patients. Dubbed the Nightingale Hospital, the temporary base will be staffed by NHS medics with the […]
A centre which has been the home of the only UK facility for treating rare eye cancers may lose the technology in the future, health bosses have warned. The world’s first low-energy proton beam therapy was performed at Wirral’s Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in 1989. About 250 people receive the treatment every year, but the technology […]