Major internal incident declared at North Cumbria's hospitals

The News and Star website reports this morning that a major internal incident has been declared at north Cumbria's hospitals by the Trust in charge of the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and the West Cumberland Hospital.
 
The News & Star has learned that staff were called to a meeting at 3pm yesterday, at which they were told that the hospital is now at "escalation number five", which is an internal major incident.

A spokeswoman for North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust told the News & Star that the declaration is across the trust, but the Carlisle hospital is more acutely affected.

The News and Star says that the hospital simply ran out of beds yesterday afternoon, and had no option but to declare an emergency and call for help from its partner agencies.

A full statement from the trust and HS Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group is expected later.

Comments

Jim said…
I remember being fitted with my first (well I guess it was my second really) Knee. I had to go in 3 times to have it, the first time was because too many sickness patients were coming in (orthapedic ones went for this) the second was to fit it, the third was to check it. Im not complaining, the best use of beds is the best use of beds, and well they are and will always be limited. You cant supply an endless amount of beds and staff, that just sit idle normally
12:29 pm
Jim said…
I guess from a sane point of view, Yes its a lovely idea, lets have a hospital bed in reserve for anyone who needs one. Lovely, but then some one somewhere has to pay for that, and if the person paying is not the person who needs then there is a conflict you see. Beds will always be a limited resource, some times too few, sometimes too many, its the balance that has to right, which is not always about lack of beds because we hit a "too few" week
12:39 pm
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