Care packs donated for Nightingale patients

[**Coronavirus**](http://Coronavirus: All the information and advice for the Channel Islands) patients at the Nightingale hospital will be given a care pack containing clothing to make them feel more comfortable.

M&S are currently sourcing and donating the clothing to go inside the care packs. Patients will receive a jumper, t-shirt, underwear, joggers and socks to give patients ‘comfort and normality when they are discharged’.

The hospital, designed so fewer nurses can look over more beds, will be able to support up to 180 patients at a time once completed.

  • As well as up to 180 beds the hospital will include:

  • Nursing bases

  • Separate areas for nurses to put PPE on and take it off

  • Staff changing areas

  • A room for an on call doctor to sleep

  • Staff rest areas

  • Porter and domestic hub

  • Laundry and linen storage

  • A control room and security hub

  • Area for X-ray, ultra sounds and ECGs

  • A multi faith space

  • A recovery bay

  • A discharge bay

  • A morgue

The £14.4 million pound project is being built on Millbrook playing fields and is due to open early May.