I’ve been sent the criteria issued to doctors for those #covid19 patients who are allowed to be transferred from hospitals to the emergency Nightingale ones that have been set up all over the UK to increase intensive care capacity. And what they show is that...

the Nightingales won’t take those who are really frail with serious comorbidities or are morbidly obese. So Nightingales are not taking those seriously ill patients who are most likely to die. They are being left in traditional hospitals. Doctors tell me they don’t understand...

the logic of these restrictions on who they can transfer and worry the Nightingales won’t therefore significantly reduce the burden on their own respective hospitals.

And another thing. When a patient is transferred to a Nightingale from a conventional hospital, the referring trust is required to supply staff to look after the patient and to supply relevant equipment. Which depletes the resources of the hospital thinking of making the...

patient transfer. And is a disincentive to making that transfer. PS attached are the inclusion criteria for transfer to the Nightingales

And here are the criteria for those patients the Nightingales won’t accept