BDP’s latest coronavirus surge hospital has opened in Harrogate just two weeks after it was commissioned.

The 500-bed facility, created at the Harrogate Convention Centre in North Yorkshire, was opened via video link this afternoon by Captain Tom Moore, the 99-year-old war veteran who has raised more than £20m for the NHS by walking round his garden.

The project, built by Bam with the British Army and a team of other consultants, involved the conversion of the 10,253sq m centre into a temporary level-three critical care field hospital for covid-19 patients. Client was the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

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