Revealed: Training providers supporting new Nightingale hospital

Two midlands-based independent training providers have rushed to the aid of the region’s new coronavirus hospital.

Performance Through People (PTP) and GB Training ran classes for over 300 nursing, care and cleaning staff now working at the Nightingale Hospital at Birmingham’s NEC.

Their teams were called in by the NHS last week to deliver what is now a rare instance of face-to-face training.

“We were giving them training on the basics of everything,” PTP’s managing director Rob Colbourne told FE Week, “so when they started caring for patients, they were multi-skilled”.

The Nightingale hospital was officially opened yesterday by Prince William, and is expected to take coronavirus patients from 23 midlands hospitals.