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Exeter Nightingale Hospital construction underway

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The 120-bed temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital to treat covid-19 patients in Exeter is to open in June - and construction is now well underway.

The facility, which was originally planned for Westpoint Arena, could be in use for up to a year - or not at all. As the coronavirus crisis progressed, health bosses felt that Westpoint, on the eastern edge of the city, would be too large.  

A former Homebase DIY store of about 40,000 square feet is now being converted into a hospital. The hope remains that it may not be needed.

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