Two more of BDP’s Nightingale hospitals open

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Manchester and Birmingham surge hospitals opened by royals

Two more Nightingale hospitals designed by BDP to help handle the coronavirus crisis have opened.

They are in Birmingham (pictured above and in a video below) and Manchester (pictured below), with facilities in other cities including Bristol right behind them.

Manchester was opened today by the Duchess of Cornwall, while the new hospital at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre was officially opened by the Duke of Cambridge and health secretary Matt Hancock via a video link yesterday. It will initially provide 800 patient beds equipped with ventilators.

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