Carlisle hotel set to temporarily receive discharged hospital patients in bid to help relieve pressure on NHS
Station Hotel, Carlisle. Picture: Google Streetview A Carlisle hotel is to temporarily receive patients ready to be discharged from hospital but not in a position to return home, in a bid to help relieve pressure on the city s hospital in light of Covid-19. The Station Hotel in Carlisle is to be used as Temporary Care Accommodation, where initially about 10 patients will be discharged to from the Cumberland Infirmary prior to their return home. The move comes amid continuing pressure on hospital services as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and will help to relieve some of this strain on the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.