Lessons in cognitive unloading, skills mixing, flattened hierarchy and organisational agility from the Nightingale Hospital London during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK [email protected].
• ² Department of Cardiology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ³ Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Governance, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ⁵ Senior Responsible Owner, New Hospital Programme, Department of Health and Social Care, London, UK.
• ⁶ Chief Executive, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ⁸ Medical Director, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ Department of Anaesthetics, German Heart Center, Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹¹ Department of Intensive Care, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹² Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• ¹³ Chief Executive, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Dartford, UK.
• ¹⁴ Chief Nurse (testing), NHS Test and Trace, Department of Health and Social Care, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ Chief Nurse, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading, UK.
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiac Imaging, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Department of Interventional Cardiology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.