MAJOR INCIDENT

[bgmnts]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-53632102

People told not to panic about the MAJOR INCIDENT.

What are these agencies anyway?

[Tony Tony Tony]

A major incident is usually declared after a big industrial or traffic accident or emergency, or a severe regional flu outbreak and usually happens in the winter when hospitals are already under strain.

Declaring a major incident allows hospital bosses to to call in extra staff and get staff to work more overtime.

However the main impact for patients is that a major incident allows a hospital to close its doors to all but the most acute cases.

In some extreme situations a hospital can close its A&E department completely - effectively closing the hospital, but this is rare.

More usually routine scheduled operations will be cancelled to free up beds and staff to deal with the influx of patients.

Different Hospital Trusts will have different criteria for declaring a major incident and may have different plans to deal with a surge in demand.

From https://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-01-07/as-more-hospitals-declare-major-incidents-what-are-they/#:~:text=Declaring%20a%20major%20incident%20allows,but%20the%20most%20acute%20cases.

[chveik]

CLOSE THE PUBS BOYS

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

GMP are a right load of cunts when it comes to PR usually, so I hope it is just them being attention seeking little troll wankers as normal and not anything like mass deaths and such.

[dissolute ocelot]

It sounds oh so dramatic when BBC news are leading with it, but it could just mean they let too many staff take holidays and urgently need to fill in, or something similarly adminstrative. Now in addition to being amateur epidemiologists we all need to be experts on public administration?

[BlodwynPig]

MEGA INCIDENT in the Swindon area

DOOMLORD INCIDENT near Wealdstone

[Captain Z]

Sick to the back teeth of hearing about Major Indecent now.

[fat_abbott]

Sick to the back teeth of hearing about Major Indecent now.

It's Captain Tom Sir Whatsisname all over again.

[Cuellar]

MASSIVE LOSS OF LIFE

UNPRECEDENTED SUFFERING

[Captain Z]

DESIGNER DRUG HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE