Major incident at Southampton Hospital Power cut.

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www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17261042.live-major-incident-declared-at-southampton-hospital-after-power-black-out/?ref=appshr

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1051471/Southampton-hospitals-major-incident

A spokesman for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust said all patients were safe but all non-urgent activity had been cancelled. He said: "University Hospital Southampton has suffered a major power cut and has declared a major incident. All patients in Southampton General and the Princess Anne hospitals are safe. "All non-urgent activity is cancelled at present. Please do not attend the hospital for non-urgent care such as outpatients, routine X-rays or blood tests

"We are asking relatives not to visit the UHS until further notice. Staff are busy caring at present and we would further ask you not to call switchboard if possible.

"The emergency department is closed for all except urgent emergencies.

"We will keep you informed as the day goes on and are grateful for your support at present and apologise to those whose care is now delayed."

Firefighters deal with a small blaze in a rear room.

Hampshire Fire and Rescue spokesman, Simon Carr, said: "We were called to Southampton General Hospital at 08:41.

"Seven engines and support vehicles were on the scene. The incident was a fire in an electrical room caused by an overloaded inverter.

"Two sets of breathing apparatus, two jets and fire extinguishers were used."

One person, who wished not to be named, said: "The place is in complete darkness, there are no lights and there is no power.

"The backup generators haven't started and people are walking around with torches." Another person said: "There is a major incident going on at the Southampton General Hospital and there is no power and the backup generators have failed to start.

"There are hardly any lights on."

More to follow.

i wonder how long NHS computers take to reboot

Very, very suspicious OP off the back of your thread

Why? Do you think she went and cut the power to the hospital to prove a point?

Do you think she went and cut the power to the hospital to prove a point?

SoupDragon

Trolling about powercuts would be a very weird thing to do.

Why would this not be a major incident? Surely it's pretty major for the staff and patients.

What do people think the definition of major incident is?

SoupDragon

I am mystified. If there is a small earthquake in the UK, no injuries, people start a thread to chat about it. Which imo is fine. No one comments. I winged about having to change trains at Birmingham. I didn't get asked if I had an underlying agenda.
What am I missing?

People start threads about their nanny not doing the washing up ....

This was a power outage at a MASSIVE maternity hospital
a MASSIVE cancer centre
and the major A&E for millions of people

how often people wash their towels is clearly MUCH more important

And all the surrounding hospitals declared a major incident too because of the knock on effect it has of patients transferring there to the A&E. Afaik, it affected Winchester, Portsmouth and Basingstoke. I was told for example all outpatient paediatric appointments were cancelled at Winchester.

Surely we can talk about all sorts here?

Like this tweet twitter.com/hhftnhs/status/1067798690415476736?s=21

One person thinks it's funny to drag up another thread in order to take the piss (even though the other thread had a valid point), a load of other lemmings people jump in too and they all end up looking like like arses.