NHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire and the Humber  The NHS Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire and the Humber is one of the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospitals set up by NHS England to help to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. It was constructed inside the Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate. To add extra critical care capacity during the COVID-19 epidemic in England, and to treat those with COVID-19, plans were made to create further temporary hospital spaces for those in need of treatment and care. They have been named "Nightingale Hospitals", after Florence Nightingale who came to prominence for nursing soldiers during the Crimean War and is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. The hospital was initially rumoured, then announced as officially planned on 3 April 2020, and became ready to open on 14 April 2020. It was formally opened, via video link, by 99-year-old fundraiser Captain Tom Moore. It is under Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. It initially has beds for up to 500 people. It is not a conventional walk-in hospital - only patients who are already inpatients in other hospitals in the region and meet certain criteria will be admitted. They will stay at the hospital until they are assessed as being ready to move back to a local hospital. The following have been involved in the creation of the hospital: