Some Welsh field hospital beds cost £166,667 per patient just in rent at the height of the pandemic We can now reveal some of the extraordinary costs Wales incurred as NHS executives sought to prepare for the worst Sign up to FREE email alerts from Wales Online - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice When the coronavirus pandemic struck last spring, there was a scramble by Welsh councils and health boards to convert facilities into field hospitals.