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The story of NHS Nightingale: how Britain’s biggest hospital was built from scratch in under two weeks https://archive.is/66vlP#selection-65.1-65.104

In just 10 days, military personnel, the NHS and contractors turned a London exhibition centre into the UK's largest hospital. Here's how ..

You could certainly have been forgiven for thinking you’d misread your calendar when images of NHS Nightingale, the emergency field hospital built within London’s ExCel Centre to ease pressure on the health service during the coronavirus crisis, were released earlier this week...

The government press conference at which Matt Hancock, the health secretary, announced NHS Nightingale’s planned construction was on March 24th. Ten days ago. At that point the ExCel was an empty, 100,000 square metre convention hall. Today, as Prince Charles cuts its virtual red tape, Nightingale is a fully functioning, fully equipped field hospital capable of holding 500 Covid-19 patients. Soon, that number could expand to 4,000.

It is a remarkable feat of planning and execution. Modern Britain doesn’t enjoy the finest record for delivering vast infrastructure projects on time or without drama (one thinks of Crossrail, or Wembley Stadium, or the ExCel’s fellow eastender, the Millennium Dome, among others), but the urgency of the coronavirus pandemic, combined with the fact the hospital was overseen by the Army’s top military planners in conjunction with health officials, has meant NHS Nightingale is a shining example of UK engineering at its resourceful best.

The man tasked with creating a 4000-bed hospital from scratch was Colonel Ashleigh Boreham, commanding Officer, 256 City of London Field Hospital. Col Boreham, from the Army Medical Services, has spent 27 years in the Forces, including as a medical commander in Afghanistan, and has helped construct field hospitals all over the world.

He was nearing the end of his time in the military when he was asked, a fortnight ago, to look into how possible it might be for the ExCel Centre to become a makeshift hospital. It would be the first of a series of field hospitals hastily built around the UK to help the ever-stretched NHS during the pandemic. The NEC Birmingham, the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, the SEC Centre in Glasgow and Parc y Scarlets in Llanelli will also turn into hospitals.

...The ExCel Centre is used to rapid makeovers. It can turn from a comic convention to an industry trade show to a street food exposition in days, but those events tend to require relatively similar set ups: stages, stalls, seating, all supported by the venue’s 27 retailers and restaurants. An NHS hospital built during a pandemic is something else entirely...

But hospitals are more than beds, of course. They are divided into numerous departments, starting with reception desks, triage areas, treatment sections, pharmacies, rest rooms for staff, offices for both medical leadership and building contractors and so on. NHS Nightingale required all of this, as well as a morgue – the building of which, Col Boreham said, made “people focus their minds”....

..His team was supported by troops from the Royal Anglian Regiment, many of whom had been working in Sierra Leone until recently, in addition to experts and construction units from the Royal Engineers and the Queen’s Gurkha Engineers...

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NHS Nightingale is named, of course, for Florence Nightingale, in the year of her bicentenary. As the founder of modern nursing, the credentials of ‘The Lady With the Lamp’ as a hero to the health service are beyond question – but she’s particularly apt for this project.
In 1854, Nightingale sent a plea to The Times newspaper deploring the conditions of British military field hospitals in Turkey during the Crimean war. Ten times more soldiers were dying from diseases like cholera and dysentery than from battle wounds. In response, the War Office commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to design the world’s first prefabricated hospital in the Dardanelles. Just five months later, the entirely new Renkioi Hospital accepted its first patients (initially 300, then more than 2,000). Infection rates collapsed.
Nightingale, then, is not only the mother of nursing, but possibly the mother of prefab. Now, more than 150 years on, the first patients will be arriving this week at an even more swiftly-built hospital bearing her name, as the health service faces its greatest crisis in peacetime.

Excel London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExCeL_London

ExCeL London (an abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London)[3] is an exhibition and international convention centre in the Royal Docks area of Newham, East London.[4] Its 100-acre (0.40 km2) site is on the northern quay of the Royal Victoria Dock in London Docklands, between Canary Wharf and London City Airport. ..

The centre was designed by Moxley Architects and built by Sir Robert McAlpine. It opened in November 2000.[5][6] In May 2008 it was acquired by Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company. Phase II of development, which included building London's first International Convention Centre (ICC) and creating an "eastern arrival experience", was completed on 1 May 2010. ..

The Royal Victoria Dock closed to commercial traffic in 1981, but it is still accessible to shipping. The Centre's waterfront location allows visiting vessels to moor alongside the Centre. For example, the 2005 London Boat Show was visited by HMS Sutherland. ... The DLR and a number of dual-carriageway roads connect the centre to the airport and the important nearby office-and-commercial district of Canary Wharf. Since June 2012, the Emirates Air Line cable car now links ExCeL to The O2 on the Greenwich Peninsula.

Sustainability and CSR
ExCeL London participates in the UN Global Compact Scheme,[16] the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative which invites companies to align with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. As part of this scheme, ExCeL produces an annual communication on progress addressing the issues of Human Rights, Labour, Environment and Anti-Corruption. ..

Re McAlpine:

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Lord McAlpine, Treasurer in Heath government

Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_ ... West_Green

Robert Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green[1] (14 May 1942 – 17 January 2014) was a British businessman, politician and author who was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.[2]

McAlpine was descended from the McAlpine baronets who made their fortune in the construction industry. ..He went to boarding school at the age of six.[4] He suffered from dyslexia and left Stowe School at 16 with three O-levels.[4][5] He then worked on a McAlpine building site on the South Bank, keeping time and dealing with wage packets...

Though the inner circle of the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson had once considered appointing McAlpine as a fundraiser, McAlpine was entranced by the new Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher at a 1975 dinner party, and she soon appointed him Conservative treasurer, a position he would retain until 1990.[6] They continued to have a close working relationship throughout her time as prime minister[2] and he led the fundraising efforts for the Conservative's general election campaigns.[2] He would later describe his relationship with Thatcher in his book The Servant.[2] Using Machiavelli's The Prince for his analogy, the "Servant" (himself) is an important part of the success of the "Prince" (Thatcher).[2][6] McAlpine's obituary in The Daily Telegraph described him as "...probably the most successful fundraiser the party ever had; yet by nature a dilettante, he did not become a significant political figure" and "...never really "into" politics.

McAlpine's personal political views were varied and included Euroscepticism, support for electric cars and the decriminalisation of all drugs.[3]

McAlpine was nominated to the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1980, despite protests at a perceived lack of experience in the field and his opposition to public subsidisation of the arts.[7] He served on the Council from 1981 to 1982.[8] Other public bodies on which McAlpine served included the Theatre Investment Fund, of which he was chairman.[3] He was also a trustee of the Royal Opera House and a director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

...McAlpine also channelled funds through offshore accounts, and received funds from US and Hong Kong nationals.[6] One of the funders of the era was Asil Nadir of Northern Cyprus, who was in 2012 convicted of stealing money from the Polly Peck company.[6] McAlpine said the Conservative party had a "moral duty" to return Nadir's donations, totaling £400,000, to the creditors of Polly Peck.[11] Other foreign businessmen courted by McAlpine included Li Ka-shing and Mohamed Al-Fayed.[3] McAlpine also claimed that he worked to help Major raise a large sum from Greek businessman Yiannis Latsis, though Major denied it...

McAlpine was allegedly on a target list of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).[14] He was on Thatcher's team when the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in 1984, but was not injured.[2] In 1990 the IRA bombed[15] West Green House, a mansion in Hartley Wintney,[14] where he had lived just weeks before, and where in the past Thatcher had been a guest.[14] In the mid 1980s, for reasons of safety and tax, McAlpine decided to move to Monaco and Venice. Before his departure he had sold many of his possessions at Sotheby's.

Defamatory allegations of child abuse
In November 2012, McAlpine was falsely implicated in the North Wales child abuse scandal, after the BBC Newsnight programme accused an unnamed "senior Conservative" of abuse.[37] McAlpine was widely rumoured on Twitter and other social media platforms to be the person in question.[37] After The Guardian reported that the accusations were the result of mistaken identity,[38] McAlpine issued a strong denial that he was in any way involved.[39] The accuser, a former care home resident, unreservedly apologised after seeing a photograph of McAlpine and realising that he had been mistaken, leading to a report in The Daily Telegraph that the BBC was "in chaos".[40] The BBC also then apologised..

Another case went to court: McAlpine v Bercow. Sally Bercow, the defendant, is the wife of John Bercow, the then Speaker of the House of Commons, a high profile, politically neutral role. On 24 May 2013, the High Court of Justice ruled that her tweet, "Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*", was libellous. The two parties agreed on a settlement, and McAlpine donated the damages awarded to the charity Children in Need..

Alistair McAlpine and Athena Malpas attend the "Famous Feet" private view and party, featuring reportage-style photos of Matthew Mellon's friends wearing shoes by Harry's Of London, at Hamiltons Gallery on November 22, 2004 in London. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/al ... =2048x2048

Uh Oh. What's this? https://searchvoat.co/v/FCDiaspora/3551686/21631796

Tamara Mellon with Ghislaine Maxwell and Bloomberg https://aim4truthblog.files.wordpress.c ... omberg.jpg

Tamara met her former husband, banking heir/billionaire Matthew Mellon, at a narcotics anonymous meeting and the Jimmy Choo Shoe founder has been public about "snorting her way through alpine ranges of cocaine." Matthew died of drug overdose at age 54 last year. Move along people, nothing to see there.

Matthew Mellon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Mellon

Matthew Taylor Mellon II (January 28, 1964 – April 16, 2018) was an American businessman who was a chairman of the New York Republican State Committee's finance committee...He attended The Phelps School, a boys' boarding school in Malvern, Pennsylvania, followed by college at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied management.[3][4] His father abandoned the family when he was five years old, before dying by suicide in 1983

Mellon was a direct descendant of Judge Thomas Mellon,[5] founder of the Mellon Bank, now part of Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, on his paternal side. On his maternal side he was a direct descendant of Anthony Joseph Drexel,[6] a banker whose investment firm was a precursor to Drexel Burnham Lambert. He maintained associations with Drexel University and Carnegie Mellon University, both of which were founded by family members. He was also involved with the National Gallery of Art, the core of whose collection was donated to the nation by his great-uncle, Andrew Mellon.

Mellon had bipolar disorder, as did his father.[4] Prior to their 2016 divorce, Mellon lived in New York City with his wife Nicole Hanley Mellon and their two children.[10] He also had a daughter whom he raised jointly with his former wife, Tamara Mellon, the co-founder of shoe company Jimmy Choo.[11][10] Prior to his marriage to Nicole, he was engaged to entrepreneur Noelle Reno, with whom he established a cashmere knitwear line...

Mellon died in April 2018 in Cancun, Mexico, where he was planning to check into the Clear Sky Recovery clinic, which specializes in ibogaine therapy, a medication with psychedelic properties. However, he was reported to have died in a hotel room in Cancun before arrival at the clinic, suffering a fatal heart attack after taking ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drink.

Related :

A Netflix doc on a fake art scandal leads to Art in Embassies and our Epstein network at Casa de Campo viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2097

Knoedler & Co https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoedler

.. with customers including collectors such as Collis P. Huntington, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry O. Havemeyer, William Rockefeller, Walter P. Chrysler Jr., John Jacob Astor, Andrew Mellon, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick, and institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, and the Tate Gallery. ..

Socialite Tim Jeffries and model Noelle Reno attend the "Famous Feet" private view and party, featuring reportage-style photos of Matthew Mellon's friends wearing shoes by Harry's Of London, at Hamiltons Gallery on November 22, 2004 in London. https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/so ... =2048x2048

Tim Jeffries posts:

Pizzagate Part III video compilation - UK, Italy and Belgium connections by @Heisenberg123 viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1944

Tim Jeffries socializing at NSPCC events, also socializing with Alexandra von Furstenberg (will mention again later) Ghislaine Maxwell, Evelyn and Jessica de Rothschilds and David de Rothschild.

A SMALL WORLD private social club with members Jeffrey EPSTEIN, WEINSTEIN, Rothschild et al. Foundation connections to PLAN INTERNATIONAL.. https://archive.is/tVLQZ

I really am going to puke..

< ..as well as a morgue – the building of which, Col Boreham said, made “people focus their minds”......His team was supported by troops from the Royal Anglian Regiment, many of whom had been working in Sierra Leone until recently, in addition to experts and construction units from the Royal Engineers and the Queen’s Gurkha Engineers.. >

They were involved with the Ebola scam too..

Tom Dannatt From Street Child Joins Sky News Tonight To Talk About Sierra Leonne Ebola Outbreak

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That's Sarah Ferguson's Street Child of which we have many posts... https://files.catbox.moe/94u721.jpg

'WE'LL BEAT IT' Gulf war hero who’s helping to build NHS Nightingale brands coronavirus ‘the enemy you can’t see’ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11298684/ ... win-fight/

..NHS Chief Executive Simon Stevens praises the efforts of doctors, nurses and COVID-19 volunteers as he opens NHS Nightingale..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stevens

Sir Simon Laurence Stevens (born 4 August 1966) is a British health manager and public policy analyst. Since 1 April 2014[1] he has served as the eighth Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England. He has been annually ranked the most influential person in UK health ever since[2] and described by the Health Service Journal as "the most dominant NHS figure in modern times – and arguably since Nye Bevan"

Simon Stevens was born in Birmingham, England,[4] the son of a Baptist minister and a university administrator.[5] He was educated at a state comprehensive, St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire, and won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford at Oxford University,[6] where he was elected president of the Oxford Union. His friends at Balliol reportedly ranged from Extinction Rebellion's Rupert Read[7] to Boris Johnson who credited Stevens with Johnson's own election as Oxford Union president.[8][9][10] Stevens later received an MBA from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and was a Harkness Fellow at Columbia University, New York.

His wife, Maggie, is a public health specialist from New York City..

..After a spell in Congo and Malawi, he became general manager for a large NHS psychiatric hospital outside Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and ran community mental health services for North Tyneside and Northumberland. He was then appointed group manager of Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London[16] before moving to New York City Health Department...

In 1997 he was appointed policy adviser to two successive Secretaries of State for Health (Frank Dobson and Alan Milburn) at the UK Department of Health. From 2001 to 2004 he was the Government's health policy adviser in the Number 10 Policy Unit to Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street. Stevens was a Labour councillor for Brixton, in the London Borough of Lambeth 1998–2002. He was closely associated with the development of the NHS Plan 2000...

From 2004 to 2014 Stevens was a senior executive at UnitedHealth Group. Initially appointed president of UnitedHealth Europe, he became CEO of UnitedHealthcare's $30 billion Medicare business, and then corporate Executive Vice President and president of its global health businesses spanning the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He also was a director of Brazil's largest hospital group AMIL..

He also served on the boards of various non-profits, including the Minnesota Historical Society; the Minnesota Opera; and the Medicare Rights Center (New York), as well as the King's Fund and the Nuffield Trust...

He has pushed the use of AI and Machine Learning in healthcare [159][160] and NHS England is hosting a new £250 million NHS AI Lab.[161][162][163] Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos he launched the first wave of NHS Innovation Test Beds.[164][165] and introduced a new NHS innovation payment.[166] NHS England funds Academic Health Science Networks, and Stevens supported the Accelerated Access Review...

..Stevens took action to stop NHS funding of homeopathy, on the grounds that it is "at best a placebo and a misuse of scarce NHS funds." NHS England was sued by the British Homeopathic Association who argued that Stevens’ criticisms, including on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, prejudged its public consultation. The High Court dismissed the BHA challenge, and backed NHS England..

Stevens has drawn attention to online sources of misinformation about vaccine safety.[176] He has noted that "although nine in ten parents say they support vaccination half of them say that they have seen fake messages around vaccination on social media," and "if parents are being told that their children shouldn’t be vaccinated, it’s as irresponsible as saying 'don’t tell your children to look both ways before they cross the road on the way to school".[177][178] He called on social media sites to take action against misleading and untrue health claims.[179][180] Both Instagram[181] and Facebook[182] subsequently agreed to do so.[183] He has also spoken out against a "pandemic of disinformation" affecting uptake of covid vaccination in some communities and some countries..

I recently looked at UnitedHealth coz Prince Harry and BetterUp

https://www.betterup.com/en-us/about-us ... yan-sonnek

Ryan heads BetterUp’s technology development and is a proven builder of web and mobile products and architect and implementer of technology platforms to launch new companies and explore business concepts...Prior to BetterUp, Ryan held senior engineering and development roles with UnitedHealth Group, VMware, Socialcast, and Digital River.

Ryan holds a B.S. in Computer Information Science from Minnesota State University.

Looks like daddy got him that job... pathetic man...

Dr. Richard Migliori, UnitedHealth Group, Tony Podesta, Podesta Group, Rep. Linda Sanchez, award recipient and Dr. Joseph Wright, Children’s National - July 2012

Sir Andrew Witty - Chief Executive Officer, UnitedHealth Group, Chief Executive Officer, Optum https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/who-w ... tives.html

...From 2008 to 2017, Witty was chief executive officer and a director of the leading pharmaceutical manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK). He joined GSK in 1985, and prior to being named CEO, served as president of GSK Europe. Witty is former chancellor of the University of Nottingham, a British public research university, and serves on the Singapore Prime Minister’s Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council. Witty became Chair, Imperial College Business School Advisory Board in November 2020. Between April and December 2020 Witty took an unpaid leave as Special Envoy at the World Health Organization, co-leading the effort to accelerate responses to COVID-19. Witty was knighted in 2012 for services to the U.K. economy. In 2017, he was named an Honorary Citizen by Singapore for his contributions to the country’s growth and development. He holds Honorary Degrees from Exeter, Manchester and Nottingham Universities.

Interesting tweet: https://twitter.com/martina_ant79/statu ... 9349746688

UK Chief Scientific Advisor Patrick Vallance ex President of GSK w shares Andrew Witty ex CEO now head covid vax development WHO. Pfizer merged w GSK 2019 Money bag Look at past history of fraud bribery deceit corruption child guinea pigs Ireland NY India Africa

With Andrew Witty's Departure, Will GlaxoSmithKline Say Goodbye to Fraud? https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikakelto ... 4bb6f15b66

Corruption, bribery, illegal marketing, contaminated drugs and collusion are some of the “highlights” of Glaxo’s business practices that were revealed during Witty’s nine years at the helm.

Witty oversaw Glaxo’s “Hall of Shame” when the following entries were added:

• A $3 billion payment to the US to settle whistleblower allegations leading to civil and criminal charges that the company had marketed a number of its top-selling drugs for unapproved uses that in many cases endangered patients’ lives and health. It is the largest healthcare fraud settlement ever paid. (My firm represented the leading whistleblowers.)

• A $750 million payment to settle whistleblower allegations that led to civil and criminal liability for manufacturing contaminated drugs at its facility in Puerto Rico and selling them.

• A $489 million fine by a Chinese court for bribery and corruption charges based on allegations its China division paid doctors to prescribe Glaxo’s drugs. (A record penalty for China.)

• Accusations of bribing doctors to prescribe Glaxo’s drugs in at least 11 other countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Syria and United Arab Emirates.

• A fine of roughly $54.5 million by Britain’s Competition & Markets Authority for allegedly paying generic drug makers illegally to delay the launch of cheaper versions of Glaxo’s Seroxat, an antidepressant.

• A fine of about $9 million imposed by India’s Competition Commission for allegedly colluding with Sanofi India in bidding to supply a meningitis vaccine to the government for Haj pilgrims.

That’s a record that won’t be missed.

On the bright side, Witty’s announced resignation provides an opportunity for Glaxo to clean up its act.

Glaxo reportedly is considering external as well as internal candidates for the top spot. The company should scratch internal prospects off the list.

Witty came up through the ranks and landed in the CEO office after more than 20 years of slogging his way up from management trainee. Although Witty surely knows the business well, he was also part of a culture that was not healthy. Only an outsider with great resolve has a chance of reshaping the business to respect compliant and ethical practices.

Given Glaxo’s recent history, the board of directors should ensure that Witty’s replacement does more than drive up profits. A dramatic cultural shift at GSK is long past due...

More interesting tweets :https://twitter.com/JessicaCheshi15/sta ... 3890375682

We can look back to 2010 to confirm that the regime were mobilising for considerable time. Clegg and Cameron conspired to split the Labour vote and give the GE to the Tories and there were already key Tory affiliates installed in every agencies necessary for a full power strike.

https://twitter.com/phyl_joy/status/1378450681997180928

It fits... Clegg well placed - Facebook partners et al WEF .... CEPI WEF.... Jeremy Farrar Director Welcome Trust - Co-founder of CEPI set up in 2017 - deregulation opening a free for all, any glitches with pharma... UK goverment has ok'd UK public to pick up the tab.... .

https://twitter.com/JessicaCheshi15/sta ... 0898514953

All there, and it didn't happen overnight, it was years in the making, years in the planning prior to that. Heseltine was instrumental, he was a social engineering fanatic long, long before Cummings was warming his fingers on a keyboard.