The O2 Arena opens as NHS training facility

The London venue has been turned over to the National Health Service to train staff for its Nightingale field hospitals

The O2 lit up blue to thank NHS workers on 25 March

The O2 Arena in London has been made available free of charge to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as a training facility, starting on Easter Sunday (12 March).

Initially operating from 12 April to 29 June 2020, staff trained at the O2 will go on to work at the NHS ‘Nightingale’ field hospital at the ExCel centre in east London.

The O2 – the world’s leading indoor arena – says that while becoming an NHS training centre “will require further rescheduling of…

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