More hotel chains have offered up their empty rooms to the NHS to help manage the coronavirus outbreak.
More hotel chains have offered up their empty rooms to the NHS to help manage the coronavirus outbreak.
Britannia Hotels has advised the Government that it can offer accommodation for 600 patients across the UK to free up spaces for people in need of critical hospital care during the Covid-19 crisis.
A spokesperson for Britannia Hotels said: “We are uniquely placed to provide extensive support accommodation for hospitals or care homes during this difficult time. It so happens that some of our hotels were already under active consideration for possible conversion into private and social care facilities.”
Best Western Great Britain has also updated its offering to the NHS, after it said yesterday that it would consider converting some of its 270 hotels into temporary hospitals.
The chain today said it will offer 15,000 beds and more than 1,000 meeting rooms to the NHS staff, care workers, families, low-risk patients and over 70s to allow coronavirus patients to take up much-needed hospital bed space.
Andrew Denton, Head of Hotel Services at Best Western Great Britain, said: “We would urge the wider hospitality industry to join our cause too. We are serious about helping reduce the number of deaths. 20,000 is too many. If our rooms and our support can be part of the solution that brings that figure down, then we will have done our job.”
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