Nightingale Hospital will we ever see pictures of it operating?

[Gfplux]

We have constantly seen pictures of the Nightingale hospital being built. Almost every news broadcast is full of them.
It is due to go operational and I wonder if we will ever see film from inside when it does.
There has been filming done from high vantage points which could be safe to continue to show.
I wonder?

That'll teach me to only half read an article. PoW is opening it by video link, which makes much more sense!

So much knitting at the guillotine. What’s wrong with people?

Good grief, no this is not about unfulfilled promises. Please get e grip, you are not entitled to see the inside of the hospital with people on ventilators where 50% are likely to die. Your needs from the government are to get the right information to keep yourself and others safe. do you think they have any spare time? There is a race on to get the testing and ppe and ventilators. Please back off and think of the violation of privacy of seriously ill people and their relatives who will not be able to see them. This IS about privacy, and really NOT about honesty. Di you think they are just pretending to build it?

Prince Charles opened it by video link (and he looked a big ruddy, hope he is properly better)

There are do many thousands of people working on that site that a cover up of any lack of standards would be impossible

We don’t need pictures there - just as we don’t have pictures of any patients in hospitals (unless documentary with consent from all parties). There’s no erosion of press freedom in the balance here. Just an expectation that well established norms will apply here

There will be photos. We’ll see them in 50 years.

What the fuck is wrong with you? I am sure the press will do the best to get their grubby little hands on some photos for you at somepoint, but why do you think so many professionals who have volunteered to return to work, be deployed from elsewhere etc would just let it slide if it's not up to standard? The photos from elsewhere are ghoulish enough, even with the faces blurred or whatever it's disgusting.

” Don’t we deserve to se if it actually is in operation?”

Absolutely not! How could you even think this way?!

Jesus. Considering that the hospital is intended for ventilated and therefore sedated patients, I bloody hope not. Looking at the recovery rates once someone has been ventilated, I very much hope no photos ever emerge of the inside of the hospital or the morgue.

Pretty sure we will get staff talking about being in there, but I would not want to see photos of critically ill patients.

Hoping to God no one I know ends up in there!

So if it’s you in there struggling to breathe, you’re happy to have your picture taken to satisfy internet conspiracy theorists? Let them know when you’re admitted, maybe they’ll be able to sort something out.

'Will we ever see pictures of it operating?'

Oh wow. I most certainly hope not. Awful.

We see so many images from inside hospitals in France, Spain, Italy and others but Britain?

You should take from this that we, Britain, are doing it right

There will be photos. We’ll see them in 50 years.

This. As awful as it is this will be part of history and in 50+ years time our great grandchildren will be talking about Covid19 in their history lessons and looking at photos, the same as past wars, Black Death etc..

No. For the sake of patient confidentiality and privacy, we absolutely should not see this while operational and I'm actually a little bit disturbed at the mindset of someone who thinks they're somehow "owed" this.

Due to infection control there are no curtains in the wards, the nurses will be using temporary screens while intubating and giving other intimate care. For logistical reasons alone it would be incredibly difficult to show it in operation without breaching patient privacy. I am genuinely gobsmacked that someone thinks it's their right to see inside while people are dying in there, potentially in their thousands.

I thought you meant "the opening" which apparently Prince Charles is to do but does seem rather unnecessary travel for him and his security etc.

He opened it by video link. He didn't actually go there.

Don’t we deserve to se if it actually is in operation?

If it is in operation? You think they built it for a couple of pictures and then just thought, 'Nah, we won't bother actually using it!'

Your reason for wanting to see it operational are awful.

Photographed professionally at one moment, in a way which best represents it at maximum use, to be filed and used in history books of the future fine as long as no one is identifiable.

What are you some kind of conspiracy theorist?

I've seen some. My company are providing some IT services and equipment. It's incredible how quickly we have managed to turn around their requirements.

I have no doubt people will take photos and try and sell them, the question is whether any of the papers will print them.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if it wasn't used at all? It would mean hospitals were coping with the demand and sick people weren't being bussed miles to be quarantined and cared for in a converted exhibition hall by hastily-drafted in staff and volunteers. It would mean the measures taken by people and government were working to keep Covid-19 under control while tests and a vaccination are developed. It would be brilliant news.

Hopefully not

Just wow!
No we bloody well don't 'deserve' to see if operating. Those will be real people in there with real families and real feelings, angst and grief!
You should be ashamed.

I think the only people who will be in the Nightingale will be extremely sick, as in already needing ventilation?

we deserve....

What about “the patients deserve privacy and dignity when they are at their lowest, most vulnerable point. The staff deserve to work freely, without photographers getting in the way, and safe in the knowledge that they won’t appear plastered over social media”?

Surely more important than your “right” to gawp and pass judgement OP?