Engineering firm works around the clock to supply Harrogate Nightingale hospital

Harrogate Convention Centre houses 500 hospital beds and is the first of the emergency ICU field hospitals created to help deal with the rising number of coronavirus cases to operate outside a major city.

NG Bailey has helped prototype and produce a suite of bespoke solutions, which included 500 prefabricated bed-head power units, 440 pipework modules units and 70 prefabricated hot water modules.

The company used its offsite manufacturing capacity in Bradford to construct the components, which will be completed in less than two weeks. A spokesperson said there have also been 150 people working around the clock onsite installing the equipment.

David Hurcomb, chief executive of NG Bailey, said: “We are proud to be playing our part to help deliver this vital NHS Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate and support the response to coronavirus over such a short period of time.

“It’s a real collective team effort with all parties working in partnership to project manage, mobilise supply chains, associated materials and services, and deliver for the benefit of the nation.

“I’d like to thank our employees and our supply chain partners for going above and beyond to deliver this at very short notice.”