Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - politics Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailNightingale hospitals will be kept on standby for an expected second wave of coronavirus, MPs have been told. NHS England said it is in talks to maintain the use of private hospitals as it attempts to tackle the biggest treatment backlog in its history. MPs accused the Government of a “negligent” and “reckless” approach by discharging thousands of hospital patients to care homes. At least 25,000 elderly people were discharged to care homes at the height of the UK outbreak without being tested. Official guidance from April 2 stated that care homes needed to make their full capacity available and that they could admit patients with Covid-19.

Source: Daily Mirror June 22, 2020 18:48 UTC