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The UK plans for pandemics continuously so in theory these sort of arrangements were at least partially in place before the virus was detected.
Each area of the UK will have plans in place for various scenarios from what to do if the virus is relatively mild but overwhelms the NHS to what to do if it's very severe and mass graves are necessary.
When I was seconded to a pandemic team ten years ago, we brought the local coroner a new JCB excavator as that particular region would run out of burial capacity with only a 1% increase in mortality rate.
It's all a bit hazy in my mind as it was so long ago but I'm certain that at least some thought had gone into location and construction of field hospitals