O2 To Be Used As NHS Training Facility

The O2 has announced that in order to help support the NHS with its preparation for the large number of additional staff needed in the effort to tackle COVID-19, The O2 arena has been made available as an NHS training facility, operating from  April 12-June 29 2020. 

The staff trained will go on to work at the NHS Nightingale field hospital at ExCel London. The NHS will be using this as an educational training facility to prepare staff and no patients will be treated on site.

O2 says that this will require further rescheduling of events booked to take place during this period but believes that its customers will understand its desire to support the NHS. The rest of The O2 will remain closed to the public until further notice.