As part of the UK government response to the Covid-19 pandemic, 7 emergency critical care hospitals were built in England in quick time, including one in the Harrogate Convention Centre: ‘NHS Nightingale Yorkshire and the Humber’. They were designed to provide care to the worst affected patients and prevent further spread of the disease inside hospitals.
This project was unique because it went from idea to completion in a matter of weeks.
The field hospital was divided up into 8 ICU wards, requiring a full medical gas installation, with the provision of medical oxygen, air and vacuum to each of the 500 beds.