Nightingale hospitals will be built in Bristol and Exeter for coronavirus patients .
Work started on 1 April and when complete they will have 500 beds. On 3 April it was announced that an additional hospital in Bristol was to be built at the Exhibition and Conference Centre of the University of the West of England. On 10 April , details emerged of plans for another Nightingale facility to be set up to provide 200 beds at Clyst St Mary , east of Exeter , within the Westpoint Arena , to take the pressure off bed spaces needed for critical care at pre-existing hospitals in the South West of England.
NHS COVID-19 critical care hospitals