The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. “It has to be within the interest of the nation, there has to be a cost capture – we don’t do it for free – and plan to hand over to civilian organisation in due course as we don’t do it forever.” The first MACA request was for the Nightingale Hospital at Excel in London. Day therapy patients pay per week in advance. The Nightingale North West Hospital - built at Manchester Central in response to the coronavirus outbreak - cost £10.25m to set up, it’s been revealed. Nightingale Hospital is an approved provider for all the UK’s leading private medical insurers. The ExCeL in London was transformed into the facility after projections showed thousands of Londoners were expected to need in-hospital treatment for Covid-19. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. At full capacity, it is estimated that the NHS Nightingale Hospital London alone will need up to 16,000 workers to keep it running. Nightingale Hospital will help you organise cover for inpatient and day therapy care by liaising with you, your consultant, and your insurance company to complete all the necessary forms. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? We joined the national effort to combat coronavirus immediately and worked in close partnership with the NHS to ensure this hospital could be up and running in a matter of days. T he NHS Nightingale Hospital, London, will be ready for use from next week. UWE Bristol’s Exhibition and Conference Centre is housing the COVID-19 support hospital, treating patients across the South West, hosted by North Bristol NHS Trust on behalf of the Severn region. Most insurances will back-date payment. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? I am sure some people really benefit from being in this hospital - there certainly seemed to be some happy patients there during my stay. The cost of treatment varies according to the type of treatment and programme that you and your specialist decide is the best option for you. Keeping the Nightingale in a "state of readiness" is costing the Trust £1.2 million a month. For some insurers, you simply need to quote your membership number to access treatment, for others you need to call the insurer for an authorisation code for a defined treatment. NHS England has not disclosed how much the English Nightingales have cost, beyond pointing out that both the London and Birmingham hospitals are occupying their expansive sites rent-free. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA The ExCeL centre has U … They will inform you whether you simply need to quote your membership number to us or they will give you an authorisation code to use. All outpatient therapy appointments should be paid for on the day of treatment. In mid-May, the Manchester hospital remained the only one of the temporary sites in England treating patients, Downing Street said. The Nightingale Hospital London is run by Barts trust, which also runs Whipps Cross, the Royal London and St Bartholomew’s hospitals. This should be written in your documentation or simply call the insurer helpline to confirm. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The process for acquiring authorisation for treatment can also differ from insurer to insurer so below are a few pointers to bear in mind. But by preparing for the worst, project leaders helped diminish the city’s collective anxiety and demonstrated how pandemic response could combine speed and innovation. This can be emailed or faxed to the Patient Services Team: 0207 724 5976. Nightingale Hospital has about 4,000 beds over 80 wards, making it one of the largest hospitals in the world. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? A "Nightingale" field hospital was completed as a 'wing' of Jersey General Hospital (on a playing field 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) away) and opened on 11 May 2020. East London's ExCeL exhibition centre, which normally plays host to lifestyle shows, expos and conferences, has been converted into the temporary NHS Nightingale hospital, with … ... NHS Chief Exec Simon Stevens at the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London. The owner of London's ExCel centre has performed a U-turn on charging the NHS to use the site as a hospital to treat coronavirus patients. Payment can be made by credit card, debit card, or bank transfer, and patients are required to pay before their treatment starts. *With the exception of patients in the 28-day addictions programme. Please note that Nightingale hospital does not accept American Express. In order to be covered by insurance, your policy may state you need to be seen by a consultant psychiatrist before referral to a therapist can take place. The NHS Nightingale hospital in Newham, east London, opened last week with 500 ventilated beds. Make a confidential enquiry today. Photographer: Andrew Parsons/10 Downing Street Sign up here for our daily coronavirus … The time to receive authorisation for treatment can vary from insurer to insurer. Outpatient appointments, day therapy, and inpatient treatments can be self-funded or paid through private medical insurance. If you are covered by your employer’s private medical insurance scheme, or you wish to be admitted to Nightingale Hospital, a referral can be made by your employer’s occupational health doctor. Nightingale hospital diverts equipment from London’s struggling intensive care units for just 30 patients. If you are having any problems at all pre, during or post-treatment with your insurance, please call us and we will try our best to help. For over 30 years, we’ve been delivering leading mental health care across a variety of mental health conditions, such as anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, stress, and bipolar; as well as addictions and eating disorders. NHS Nightingale Hospital London, an emergency medical facility and largest hospital in the U.K., is open after converting the ExCeL London exhibition center The Health Secretary has announced that a new 4,000-bed hospital to treat coronavirus patients will open at the Excel Centre in London. “We’ve therefore taken the decision to utilise the equipment and begin offering CT scans at the facility so that we can get patients seen quickly.”, An NHS spokesperson said the Nightingale hospitals were “built to provide back-up capacity to be used as needed”, adding: “It is very good news for the health of our country that they have so far been needed much less than they might have been.”, The spokesperson said: “Coronavirus is still with us and work is now underway to consider what role the Nightingales may play as the NHS begins to bring back non-urgent services, while maintaining critical care capacity and providing rehabilitation care for those who need it.”. Central London’s leading private mental health hospital, specialising in general mental health, including eating disorders and addictions. Staffing. For outpatient services, you will need to call your insurer to get approval for treatment. Jeremy Rees, Chief Executive, ExCeL London said: “The use of ExCeL London for NHS Nightingale London has always been provided to the NHS rent free. Have a question about paying for treatment? Inpatients are then required to pay for each week of treatment in advance. A 4,000-bed field hospital, NHS Nightingale, has been created in the ExCel centre in London. Government spent £220m creating Nightingale hospitals, Nightingale hospital reopens for CT scans to help cut waiting lists, NHS Nightingale hospital to stop admitting patients this week, leaked, NHS Nightingale being ‘wound down’ after no new patients in a week, stopped taking in new patients in early May, Inside the Nightingale: the reality of care in London’s field hospital, announced earlier this month it would reopen for CT scans, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. We are currently working to understand any staffing requirements needed at a number of these sites and will be updating our website and social channels as appropriate in the near future. Bosses at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital insisting their wards were 'very busy'. If this is the case but you or your specialist feel you need to come into the hospital straight away you can self-pay for treatment for a short period of time before the cover is received and some insurance in special cases will back-date cover. The London Nightingale is run by Barts Health NHS Trust, which also runs Whipps Cross, the Royal London and St Bartholomew’s hospitals. Outpatient appointments, day therapy, and inpatient treatments can be self-funded or paid through private medical insurance. Your consultant psychiatrist will subsequently fill in all the necessary forms for the insurance company and the hospital will apply for the cover for your treatment for you. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. The temporary site in London – which was the first Nightingale hospital to open in April – stopped taking in new patients in early May following limited demand for its services. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. The numbers – revealed in a Freedom of Information request (FoI) – cover all of the seven sites built to help the country deal with the coronavirus outbreak. Consultant psychiatrists will invoice patients directly for all outpatient appointments. Once the initial appointment has taken place the consultant will be able to refer you for the most appropriate therapy. What an insurer will fund and the process for acquiring authorisation for treatment can vary between insurers, so it is advisable that you check with your insurance company about what your particular policy covers. However its capacity can be expanded to hold between 3,500 and 4,000 beds. Worrying about insurance coverage can cause unnecessary strain so we hope the below information gives you a bit of guidance on getting the treatment you or a loved one needs. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. However, some of these field hospitals have not taken in a Covid-19 patient to date, according to the Health Service Journal (HSJ). The new hospital, established in under a fortnight, will be available as soon as patients across London and the south of England need it. The first NHS Nightingale hospital, at ExCeL London, was officially opened by HRH Prince Charles. The Nightingale Hospital London at the Excel in London. Cost of building and running Exeter's new Nightingale hospital is kept under wraps Assurances have been made that what isn't will be in the public domain in 'due course' devonlive But please be aware it can take 48 hours or longer if over a weekend. The temporary field hospitals to deal with covid-19 were built in London (pictured), Manchester, Birmingham, Exeter, Harrogate, Bristol and Washington and have been hailed for the speed with which they were put up. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. The Nightingale hospital ultimately treated only 54 patients in its six weeks of operation, as the spread of COVID-19 cooled in London. The cost of treatment varies according to the type of treatment and programme that you and your specialist decide is the best option for you. Each patient so far admitted to the Nightingale hospitals has cost £1m to treat, an analysis reveals.Seven Nightingale hospitals were built, at a total cost of £220m, to ease pressure on the health Due to open this week, NHS Nightingale Hospital London will have between 4,000 and 5,000 beds. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. “The fact that the Nightingales have not had to be used in a significant way is testament to the sacrifices of the British public and the hard work of the NHS in keeping the infection rate down,” the prime minister’s official spokesperson said, “and ensuring that extra capacity is made available in existing hospitals.”. If you intend to fund your treatment with private medical insurance, your insurer will normally ask that you get a GP referral letter. For self-funding patients, we recommend that it is in the best interests of patients to provide a GP referral letter as it can be useful (but not essential) in providing relevant medical history. Inpatients are asked to pay a deposit, the value of which will comprise seven days of treatment, and the initial assessment (by the ward doctor) fee*. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Patient reviews of Nightingale Hospital - Page . Mental health conditions treated at Nightingale Hospital, Relationship and interpersonal difficulties, Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS). With a second wave of the virus emerging, it raises questions about whether the Nightingale could be needed again. We also suggest bringing the name of your insurance provider, as well as the number of approved sessions you have under that authorisation code. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Once the cover is approved we will call you and schedule your treatment. NHS Nightingale Hospitals PLEASE READ: Thank you for your interest in working at NHS Nightingale hospitals. You will need to bring your membership number and authorisation code with you to your first appointment. The NHS Nightingale Hospital London is the first of the NHS Nightingale Hospitals: temporary hospitals set up by NHS England for the COVID-19 pandemic.It is housed in the ExCeL London convention centre in East London, and has an initial capacity for 500 patients, with potential for 4,000. “The measures taken to introduce social distancing and manage hospital demand have meant that we’ve not yet needed to use the NHS Nightingale hospital for its original intended purpose,” Steve Russell, chief executive of the Nightingale and the local Humber and Harrogate and District NHS Trust, said. Seven huge venues including London's Excel Centre were converted into critical care hospitals early in the pandemic at a cost of £220million, but just two of them have treated Covid patients. Revealed: Government Secrecy Over Nightingale Hospital Costs And Private Firms That Built Them The government has refused to reveal the multi … Sites have been on standby to take in Covid-19 patients if needed, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. East London’s NHS Nightingale hospital … Running costs in April were around £15m, the health ministry said. The hospital was rapidly planned and constructed, being formally opened on 3 April and receiving its … In order to be covered by insurance, your policy may state you need to be seen by a consultant psychiatrist before referral to a therapist can take place. Dependent on the proposed programme, this may be anything from one group per week to 5 full days per week. Responding to an FoI request into the cost of these critical care hospitals, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said the total set-up cost for the seven sites was about £220m, according to estimates provided by the NHS. The government has said it cannot say when it will reveal details about how much it has cost the taxpayer to build England’s Nightingale hospitals. Once this is received, we can arrange the initial appointment with you. Some insurance companies state they do not cover emergency treatment for psychiatry. Nightingale Hospital is proud to work with most major insurance companies. The NHS Nightingale Hospital Bristol has opened at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)’s Frenchay campus. If you intend to fund your treatment with private medical insurance, your insurer will normally ask that you get a GP referral letter. The government spent an estimated £220m setting up England’s Nightingale hospitals, figures have shown. Once authorisation has been received your treatment can start. At a cost of many millions a week there are rumblings the Nightingale is turning into an expensive white elephant. Paying for mental health treatment at Nightingale Hospital. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. The temporary site in London – which was the first Nightingale hospital to open in April – stopped taking in new patients in early May following limited demand for its services. They had on average 85 out of 647 beds filled with Covid-19 patients in the week ending November 17. The cost of an initial appointment with a consultant psychiatrist is approximately £380, depending on which Consultant is seen, and usually lasts an hour. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. We monitor approvals coming through continuously and will chase insurance companies for you. Most insurance companies provide authorisation/claim numbers. The Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire announced earlier this month it would reopen for CT scans for hundreds of patients a week. 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