Today we welcomed six key broadcast media outlets into the NHS Nightingale Hospital London to see the hospital before it opens for patients and interview some of our senior team.
This was an opportunity to showcase the progress in getting the hospital ready to receive patients, highlight the commitment and excellence of the NHS’s people, and reinforce to the public the importance to follow government advice to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
Media in attendance included ITN, Sky News, BBC, Press Association, CNN and Forces TV and each outlet had interviewed key spokespeople including Natalie Forrest (Chief Operating Officer, NHS Nightingale London), Ruth May (Chief Nursing Officer, NHSE/I), Alan McGlennan (Medical Director, NHS Nightingale London), Eamonn Sullivan (Chief Nurse, NHS Nightingale London), Vin Diwakar (Regional Medical Director, NHSE/I) and Ben O’Brien (Clinical Director, NHS Nightingale London).
All of our spokespeople did a brilliant job of communicating the unprecedented nature of the challenge, and the remarkable spirit of collaboration in building NHS Nightingale Hospital London in such a short period of time.
During the tour, media were able to see the hospital in construction, demonstrating the pace at which the hospital has been built, and they also had a preview of a finished ward.
Today’s media activity was done under embargo and we anticipate widespread coverage from tomorrow morning onwards.
